Megan Alley
Oak Bluffs: Town parking
What an ending to the month of May between wild winds, torrential rains, and political happenings. Because of the Memorial Day weekend our columns...
Oak Bluffs: Summer at Featherstone
Summer arrived rather abruptly on Saturday last, bringing high temperatures and humidity. We had become used to the cold spring thus far and it...
Oak Bluffs: M.V. Chamber Music Society
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, Brood X, a.k.a. the Great East Brood, the largest group of 17-year locusts, are due to emerge from...
Oak Bluffs: Community parks
I had a friend ask me if I ever remember May as being so cold for so long. I think this is the coldest...
Oak Bluffs: Mother’s Day
May has arrived bringing more flowers, and I think the meaning of May is that we “may” get sun or rain or winds or...
Oak Bluffs: Programs for seniors
“It is not enough to know how to ride, you must also know how to fall” is a Mexican proverb according to the Old...
Oak Bluffs: P.A. Club chicken dinner
Seems like April Fool’s Day was a bit late as we got our surprise flurries of snow last week instead of April 1. But...
Oak Bluffs: Our return to the Moon
Saturday last was a beautiful day that makes us all realize how lucky we are to live here on this Island. My family and...
Oak Bluffs: Birds and perennials
This Island spring of iffy weather continues to reduce the warmth other towns on the mainland are enjoying. But it will continue to get...
Oak Bluffs: Neighborhood clean-up
Do I dare say that I think we have seen the last of snow until next winter? More sun to warm our hearts and...
Oak Bluffs: Annual town election
Welcome spring with the sunnier days true to the predictions at last. Our family spent Sunday last raking away barrels of leaves and allowing...
Oak Bluffs: Cancer support group
Another Monday has rolled around with just a couple of changes. We are now on daylight savings time and it is so pleasant to...
Oak Bluffs: Anniversary of steamship rescue
Under the leaves in the sunny area in my backyard, the first courageous plants of spring are poking green shoots to reach warmth and...
Oak Bluffs: M.V. Chamber Music Society
Another rainy Monday as I look out the window at the overcast sky. When I go out to call Doddle to come in for...
Oak Bluffs: Food distribution
My cell phone weather app tells me it is raining now on this Monday, but I have yet to see it. If the cat...
Oak Bluffs: YMCA programs
It is Friday, Feb. 12, and I am writing my column for Feb. 18, early once again, because Monday is a holiday. The Times...
Oak Bluffs: Library programs
Snow, ice, cold and colder as we progress into the second week in February. The view from the inside where I am warmed by...
Oak Bluffs: An up-close coronavirus experience
February 2021 is here with a confetti parade of snowflakes to announce its arrival. It is predicted that whatever little snow we get will...
Oak Bluffs: Virtual theater fun
Here on this Island, according to the latest figures, COVID numbers are increasing daily, yet the governor has now suspended the early closures and...
Oak Bluffs: Community services
United States history that I never imagined or wanted to view took place this week in our beloved country. I guess the only way...