The Vineyard spent Wednesday digging out from the winter gale that battered the Island all day Tuesday. Schools remained closed on Thursday as highway workers and private contractors planned to spend another day clearing snow from roadways.

Leonardo da Vinci does not make it into the bird news too often! He is well known as an artist. He is not so well known as a scientist.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank will host a guided walk at Toad Rock Preserve at Moshup Trail Road in Aquinnah on Sunday, Feb. 1, beginning at 1 p.m.

The Martha’s Vineyard Community Seed Library hosts a seed swap and germination testing workshop on Saturday, Jan. 31, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the West Tisbury library.

Are we doomed? Is the end of the world nigh? Should you be worried? Depends on whom you ask and whom you believe.

The blizzard of 2015 spared Norton Point, the long barrier beach that is about to reconnect Chappaquiddick to the rest of the Vineyard, from further breaching. Chris Kennedy, superintendent for The Trustees of Reservations, reported Thursday that the breach remained as it was before the storm.