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British poet Edith Sitwell took winter to heart. She believed it “is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
February 27, 2023
We will remember this New England winter, at least to date, as a season more than unusual and almost absent of snow. Island warming is the talk of the Vineyard. Temperatures this past week have reached the 50s, with a high of 70 last weekend.
February 26, 2023
Demolition was underway this weekend on the Chappaquiddick summer home on a bluff at Wasque that has been severely threatened by the breach along Norton Point.
February 25, 2023
Now the path of the new year leads us into February, another month that has its whole being in the season of winter. But unlike our lives, winter is a story whose ending we already know.
February 23, 2023
Chicago opened Thursday night at the high school's Performing Arts Center, and Friday night’s audience, which packed the nearly 800-seat theatre, exploded in applause for a cast that included seniors Jack Crawford as Billy Flynn, Annabelle Brothers as Roxie Hart, Faith Fecitt as Velma Kelly, and
February 21, 2023
Resident winter birds are plentiful in February during the stretch between winter and spring, and northbound migrants begin to arrive.
February 21, 2023
On the Island, we measure and treasure the months of quietude, the resting period before the approach to the summer season begins, and it causes us to come up short to realize that February is halfway done and spring is little more than a month away.
February 19, 2023
For Love Lives Here, Featherstone Center for the Arts invited Island artists to interpret the power of love and what “here” means since the Vineyard holds such a power of place, particularly for artists who find inspiration on the Island.
February 18, 2023
Oak Bluffs popular eatery, Linda Jean’s, which had been closed since mid-December, celebrated its re-opening with a ribbon cutting and gracious words from new owners Lisa and Winston Christie.
February 16, 2023
We are about midway between winter solstice and vernal equinox, but the weather feels more like early spring than midwinter. This week some of the days were almost balmy.
February 12, 2023
Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Dream Team players took to the hardwood in a game against the Harlem Triksterz.
February 11, 2023
Martha’s Vineyard boys basketball team notched their 11th straight victory last night, knocking off Dennis-Yarmouth by a score of 60-42.
February 7, 2023
The first week of February is in the record books with an icy weekend made more so with wind chill.
February 5, 2023
The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society provided shelter for barn animals and livestock during the cold snap this weekend.
February 4, 2023
After mostly mild weather this year, the Vineyard has had its first snap of bitter cold. The temperature was -3 this morning, with the wind chill making it feel even colder.
February 4, 2023
A total of 19 student artists received acclaim this week, winning a combined 24 awards for their creative submissions to the 2023 Scholastic Art Awards competition.
February 3, 2023