Erica Price and her dog, Lucy, were waiting outside at the Woods Hole Steamship Authority terminal on Wednesday, Dec. 24, radiating patience and the spirit of Christmas joy amid a stressful afternoon.

On Monday morning, the boom of shotguns echoed across the Island landscape, signaling the start of the two-week deer shotgun hunting season.

Living year-round on Martha’s Vineyard requires specific survival skills. These include stocking up on your favorite grocery items when they are on sale.

The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife (DFW) relies on hunters to reduce the growing Martha’s Vineyard deer herd. Islanders broadly have a stake in the hunters’ success.

In March, the Friends of Mill Pond will sponsor Celebrating the Mill Pond: Sustaining Serenity Together, a delusional, misbegotten, month-long “community awareness campaign” to support maintaining the artificial impoundment that harms Mill Brook.

Kib Bramhall is a member of a rarefied fraternity, he embodies the Vineyard fishing culture he embraced when he arrived on the Island at age 12 in 1945.