It is a bit early in the year for shorebirds to show up on their northward migration. It is still February, after all.

An unusual story of extinction on Martha’s Vineyard revolves around a humble mouse. To be exact, the house mouse.

We’ve got mostly moonless nights ahead. The moon is a thin crescent low in the eastern sky before sunrise tomorrow morning.

There is something bubbling up in Katama.

We are all looking and listening for signs of the approaching spring, as some of us cannot wait for it to come even though we have not experienced much severe winter weather so far.

Voters will face a choice this spring for how best to reduce the use of plastic: study the issue for a year, or adopt an outright ban on the sale of small-sized plastic bottles.