4+ hour, 3+ min ago  (312+ words) And pitch it at Islanders Write. "Write about it." Those are the words my novelist mother would say whenever I was upset about something. Even when I was tearful or furious because of something she had uttered or done. It…...

4+ hour, 41+ min ago  (692+ words) Spring. It's a time of miracles. A time of watching flowers and grasses pop up through the ground after their long winter nap. A time that is celebrated throughout the world, in festivities that celebrate the rising of the sap…...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago  (186+ words) I think that I shall never see /A poem lovely as a tree." "Joyce Kilmer This windy winter has done a number on trees all over the Island. Lots of cleanup is in progress already, and piles of branches along…...

3+ hour, 33+ min ago  (210+ words) Scientists Neil Ganju, Rachel Jakuba, and Susan Teal will join Buzzards Bay Coalition president Mark Rasmussen to discuss the 57-year-old landmark book "Life and Death of the Salt Marsh." The book was published in 1969, and was recently reprinted by the…...

4+ hour, 7+ min ago  (546+ words) The Martha's Vineyard Times Shelley Edmundson, executive director and founding member of the M. V. Fishermen's Preservation Trust, says, "Commercial fishing can sometimes be viewed as a mysterious occupation. Bystanders see boats leaving harbors or coming in, but the parts in between…...

4+ hour, 10+ min ago  (218+ words) Beach grass planting supported by community roots. "We've been working on restoration in that area for 30 years " invasive species, cranberry bogs, managed by the tribe. All tribal properties have a form of management," says the director of the Wampanoag Tribe's…...

4+ hour, 38+ min ago  (485+ words) North Road is beautiful, and the Jenkinsons" daffodils on the hillside below their home and around the old gas pump are peaking." Congratulations to Mike Broderick and Mary Mc Conneloug, members of the U. S. Cycling Team, on their strong performances in…...

4+ hour, 35+ min ago  (291+ words) The pleasant temperatures may have caused a rare local phenomenon known as Cribbage Migration, in which residents emerge from their winter hiding places and warmer winter residences, blink at the sunshine, and suddenly feel the need to count 15s and complain…...

4+ hour, 8+ min ago  (555+ words) Despite temperatures being mild one day, then plunging to near-freezing the next, it really is starting to look like spring. The light feels softer and warmer, as do the colors in the landscape, where peach, lavender, and yellow-green have replaced…...

3+ hour, 36+ min ago  (133+ words) The Martha's Vineyard Times A community poetry reading will take place at the West Tisbury library on Sunday, April 12, from 12 to 1 pm. Community members are invited to share their own poems and/or the poems of others, and can attend…...