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The aggressively invasive mile-a-minute vine, or Persicaria perfoliata, was discovered for the first time on the Vineyard by Greg Palermo and Margaret Curtin.
Around the Island, in ceremonies that stretch back to the 1960s, students remember veterans on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend by marching from their schools to place flowers in the sea.
The parade steps off at 10 a.m. on Monday, beginning at the American Legion Hall.
Busy is the common theme as the Vineyard gets ready for another summer season on Memorial Day weekend.
After months of back and forth, Tisbury selectmen have signed a contract to allow a three-day music festival to take place in Veterans Memorial Park this August.
After months of excavation and construction, the controversial third slip at the Steamship Authority's Woods Hole terminal goes into service for Memorial Day weekend.