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The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society’s Community Deer Cooler, maintained to reduce the Island’s deer population, stored a record 90 deer this year.  The program has been in place since 2019, and the 90 deer is up from 79 in 2022. Brian Athearn, a manager at MV Hunt Club, credits the good 2023 season in part […]

Islanders will have to learn how to live with coyotes on Martha’s Vineyard.  That’s from Dan Proulx, Marblehead assistant animal control officer and wildlife rehabilitator at Dan’s Wildlife Rescue, who led a talk about coyotes at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Hall on Saturday, attended by around 120 people.  “He reminded us that we need to […]

The National Weather Service is warning that an Arctic cold front is moving in this weekend, with the wind chill Friday night and into Saturday morning potentially reaching between -10° and -20° for Martha’s Vineyard. The air temperature for those hours is forecast to be around 0°, but northwest winds could reach 40 miles per […]

What a wild week of weather. Rainy, raw, windy days followed by days that felt like summer redux. All you can do is wear layers this time of year. It was a busy weekend of events. I was a member at one of the Howes House focus groups that met Saturday morning to discuss possibilities […]

After months of preparation and a three-hour drive to Woods Hole, Mass., we finally drove our truck and trailer, with four bovines and one donkey, onto the ferry for a 45-minute boat ride to Martha’s Vineyard for its 160th Agricultural Fair. This year...

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) secretary Beth Card declared in a press release on Wednesday, August 24, Level-2 (significant) to Level-3 (critical) droughts are being experienced across the state. Martha’s Vineyard started experiencing Level-1 (mild) drought in May. Now, Martha’s Vineyard is facing significant levels of drought. Nantucket, the Elizabethan Islands, and Western Massachusetts […]

To the Editor: Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society (MVAS) and Vineyard Conservation Society (VCS) are pleased to announce that MVAS will host the West Tisbury Farmers Market once again this season at its property on Panhandle Road.  In 2020, the Farmers Market relocated to the MVAS property to allow for social distancing. Now, with the COVID […]

The West Tisbury zoning board of appeals unanimously approved awarding the special permit the West Tisbury Farmers Market applied for, allowing the market to conduct its operations on the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society fairgrounds instead of at the Grange Hall after objections from the Vineyard Conservation Society and then later gaining approval from the West […]

West Tisbury will be holding its elections on April 16 at the town’s public safety building. Polls are open from  7 am to 8 pm. The only contested race is the seat left open by the death of select board member Kent Healy. Three West Tisbury residents are competing for the seat. These three candidates […]

“It’s really all about being graceful,” bowhunter Brian Welch said as he nocked his 100-gram field-point arrow to his bowstring. “Like any of the shooting sports, it’s all about practicing the technique so you can be ready to land that shot when the moment comes.” Welch is a lifelong hunter, and range officer at the […]