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The funniest serious poet around
Billy Collins Featherstone Center for the Arts and Pathways Arts will present Billy Collins, reading his poems, at 6 pm on Saturday, Sept. 26 in Featherstone’s Francine Kelly Gallery. Collins will also be teaching a one-day poetry workshop on Friday, Sept. 25. This year marks the…
Art show: Susan Bienen Johnson
Catch the art show “Stone Walls, Graves, Fishing Shack Windows” by Susan Bienen Johnson at the West Tisbury library. A closing reception will be held Tuesday, Sept. 29, 12 to 2:30 pm. “This group of paintings celebrates lichen-covered landscapes and fishing shack windows, all of…
‘Maintaining Our Sovereignty’
Check out the Aquinnah Cultural Center’s Wampanoag History Museum. The museum is located on ancestral homelands, and shares the long and ongoing story of the Wampanoag people on Noepe (Martha’s Vineyard). Through exhibits and interactive displays, visitors can connect with more…
An Island respite
Val Leone, the protagonist in Maria Anne Lenihan’s new novel, “Morning Glory Girl,” has a bit of a problem. Actually, it’s a career-threatening one, so it weighs heavily on her life. After six years on the partner track at a New York corporate law firm, Val is under a lot of…
Questions in the crosshairs
Alex Friedman at the forum. —Nicholas Vukota Updated Sept. 24, 6 pm. These are men capable of being perfectly still in a tree stand, in the cold and silent air. But they aren’t as at home in meetings, and certainly not ones that last for hours. Many of them abandoned the…
What it means to have your greatness recognized: ‘Late Fame’
“Late Fame,” by Kent Jones, playing at the M.V. Film Center on Friday, Sept. 25, is a quiet story adapted from an Arthur Schnitzler novella. It follows the aging Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe), a former poet working a humdrum Post Office job in New York City, who is “rediscovered”…
Chilmark
Last week, the traditional first week for the fourth and fifth graders at the Chilmark School sailing trip on the Shenandoah was her final voyage. She was joined by a parade of sails from Menemsha to Tarpaulin Cove on Naushon, and back to Vineyard Haven Harbor. Thank you, Lynne…
Week 2: New leader fish ahead of the storm
Sal Tummino fished hard on Monday, covering nearly every inch of the South Shore. His efforts paid off with this 12.86-pound beauty that put Sal atop the Senior Shore Bluefish Grand Leader division at the time. —John Piekos Doug Asselin held the leading bluefish position for two…
Marijuana business eyes Oak Bluffs zoning amid legal disputes
A cannabis entrepreneur group’s plans to set up a dispensary on the Island fell through last year, and assets in 90 Dr. Fisher Road in West Tisbury, the former location of the Island’s only marijuana-growing facility, are being liquidated. But representatives of Black Harbor…
Impacts of nor’easter start to hit Island
Satellite image from Friday, Sept. 25. —Courtesy NOAA The winds have been strong all week, and the rain has started to come down as an early season nor’easter heads toward the Island and is expected to last through the rest of the weekend. Several ferry lines have canceled trips…
STATEWIDE SHELLFISHING CLOSURE
Beginning at sunrise on Saturday, 9/26/2026 all waters will be closed to shellfishing until further notice per the Division of Marine Fisheries.
Kismet Outfitters celebrates saltwater fly-fishing
Kismet Outfitters is celebrating saltwater fly-fishing by featuring the 20th anniversary Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T), an all-new collection of films highlighting the people, places, and adventures that make fly-fishing so addictive. Before the films, Capt. Dave Steeves of Sage…