The specter of Covid-19 hovers over Martha’s Vineyard like a swarm of gulls at a Menemsha clambake.

The disappearance over the past decade of daily and weekly newspapers has turned many areas of the United States into news deserts.

Dukes County government is Martha’s Vineyard’s Northwest Passage.

Tom Robinson of Vineyard Haven and I were after white perch in Tisbury Great Pond. We caught only one fish, but it turned out that was all we needed.

At annual town meetings in April and May, Martha’s Vineyard voters will take up the political arguments and questions that have steamed all winter like a pot of thick chowder.

Weekly fly tying sessions provide a welcome winter refuge for becalmed fishermen.