Nature & Science
The long-running North Bluff coastal bank restoration project in Oak Bluffs is on time and under budget, town officials learned during a walking tour at the site this week.
The Army Corps of Engineers terminated its contract with J-Way Inc. Dredging equipment has been left behind in Menemsha Channel and along Lobsterville and West Basin roads.
The board of health is considering rules that would hold property owners accountable for wastewater from new development in two pond watersheds.
Leading water quality experts gathered for a daylong conference at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury Thursday to lay out some of the solutions to declining pond health on the Vineyard.
Friday night’s first quarter moon appears near the bright star Regulus, in the zodiacal constellation Leo.
The unfinished project in Menemsha Channel has come to a new impasse as town officials and the Army Corps of Engineers sort their options for dealing with equipment that the contractor has left behind.
Almanac
A comprehensive guide to weather and tides on the Island.
Vineyard Gardener
I guess this past week weather-wise is called a January thaw. We did not really experience it the last several years as December was unseasonably warm.
Farm & Field
Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.