Monthly Archives: May 2024
Prevention is the Key to Avoiding Tick Bites
Tick talk is serious business on Martha’s Vineyard, and there is cause for concern once again, as tick activity is on the rise heading...
Writing from the Heart: ‘Who’s Tom?
In 1997 I was the recipient of the Artist in Residence award at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Prior to my interviews with the...
Woodside Story: Celestial enlightenment?
Sometimes astrology can give us fresh answers for why everything is running amok. It’s def amok, right? And so we’d like to know what...
Take a Stroll on the Wild Side
The Town Walkers of the Tisbury Council on Aging are an enthusiastic bunch. I joined them for one of their twice-weekly Tuesday and Thursday...
Academic Honors
Graduation
Catherine Stewart of Vineyard Haven, cum laude, from College of the Holy Cross.
Dean’s list
Kya Kavanagh of Edgartown, at the University of Arkansas at Little...
Dogcharmer: George won’t come when called
Dear Dogcharmer,
We have the cutest little Westy imaginable. His name is George. We got him when he was 3 months old. He's now 4½...
Animal owners first aid education event
The Island's shortage of large and small animal vets is critical and well-covered (bit.ly/MVT_VetShortage). Coupled with the steady increases in year-round residents, the number...
Wild Side: The Discreet, Though Plentiful, Red-Eyed Vireo
Standing on a hilltop in the woodland of the Chilmark moraine this past weekend, I experienced a single, dominant impression: Red-eyed vireo is one...
Tisbury
Heard on Main Street: When I was a kid, I always wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
I don’t like surprises,...
New Island Poet Laureate Crowned
Claudia Taylor has been chosen as the new poet laureate of Martha’s Vineyard for 2024–26.
She was selected by the Martha’s Vineyard Committee for the...
Oak Bluffs
“You start out playing rock and roll so you can have sex and do drugs. But you end up doing drugs so you can...
In the Kitchen with Jeff Lambert
When Chef Jeff Lambert told me he was making fresh herb aioli on swordfish for our "In the Kitchen with ..." series, I was...
Cribbage Club Results
Twenty-four Vineyard Cribbage Club members met on Wednesday at the MVRHS Culinary Dining Hall in Oak Bluffs to play our favorite game. The results...
Culinary Series at the Vineyard Haven Library
The Vineyard Haven library kicks off its summer programming for adults with a monthlong celebration of culinary arts, sponsored by the Friends of the...
West Tisbury
I’m writing this column early on Friday morning, the morning after the big rainstorm we had mid-afternoon yesterday. My woods are shrouded in mist....
Rise Vineyard Performing Arts presents ‘The Edge of Seventeen’
Rise Vineyard Performing Arts presents its 17th annual recital, “The Edge of Seventeen.” Two different shows will take place at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing...
Laura Lee Barbera
Laura Lee Barbera, 60, passed away peacefully at her home in Vineyard Haven on May 18, 2024.
Laura was born on July 13, 1963, in...
Robert Sherman Daniels
Robert Sherman Daniels (“Bob”) passed away at home in Edgartown on the morning of March 29, 2024. He was 99.
Born on Sept. 27, 1924,...
Ravizza “wanted to have some fun”
Updated May 30
Jared Ravizza, the Vineyard man accused of a stabbing spree Saturday on the South Shore, had a simple answer when asked why...
Vineyarders take out Cuttyhunk’s beach trash
Vineyard volunteers the Beach BeFrienders, who clean up Island beaches monthly, traveled to Cuttyhunk last week to help clear fishing gear debris from the...