Year in and out, the Vineyard explodes in color in May. As May opens, the world comes alive again. Spring has arrived.
Year in and out, the Vineyard explodes in color in May. As May opens, the world comes alive again. Spring has arrived.
The Vineyard Gazette was honored with more than 30 awards over the weekend at the New England Newspaper & Press Association award ceremony, including 12 awards for photography.
Welcome, May — how very welcome this new month is. The new green buds are bursting at its arrival; the birds sing earlier each morning as they gather materials for their nests.
The arrival of spring will lock the sun on the Island side of the equator for the next six months and this is the real news of this seasonal moment.
The length of Circuit avenue has been transformed by the new streetscape design.
The Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Hatchery is a laboratory and breeding nursery for oysters, quahaugs and bay scallops to help support wild populations, restore local ecosystems and provide seed for commercial experiments.
The proposed Island-wide housing bank took another step forward when Chilmark became the fifth town to give it a thumbs up at its annual town meeting Monday night.
The spring migration is in full force in April as summer visitors come north while winter residents depart.
Gail Barmakian’s close win on election night for Oak Bluffs select board stands after Monday morning’s recount confirmed her victory over Dion Alley with a recount vote of 505-503.
April began on a whim, celebrating the art of foolishness and ends, at least here on the Island, with a clarity of purpose.
People from around the Island gathered on Saturday morning to scour the shoreline for bags, bottles, lighters, fishing gear and other beach litter.
Menemsha is an idyllic part of the Island. It is a fishing town enveloped by placid blue water and sandy green hills and blessed with the Island’s deepest and most intense sunsets.
Easter weekend began the week of April vacation in our public schools, and the sound of suitcases snapping shut could be heard across the Vineyard.
No pulling on ears or tails, please. A familiar tradition returned Saturday with the opening of the Flying Horses carousel at the foot of Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Whether the central focus of our celebration is Easter, Passover or the reckless beauty of a sunstruck spring day, the text for this weekend is one and the same.
Children fanned out across the pastures at Island Alpaca searching for eggs and posing for pictures with the Easter Bunny.
Voters headed to the polls in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury to decide on new select board members and cast ballots on the question of whether to create a Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank.