News across Greater Vineyard Haven
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…
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…
Local Drop Off & Transfer Station CLOSED due to weather
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…
Garden Notes: We’re past the equinox
One native, one not: Early fall combo of goldenrod and anemones in part sun, part shade. —Abigail Higgins Olive wood mortar and garlic. —Abigail Higgins Large black-and-yellow garden orb weaver spiders are harvesting insects. —Abigail Higgins The Sept. 22 equinox has come and…
The time is now to fix Five Corners
This issue of our print edition has to make its way across a vicious chop in the Vineyard Sound amid serious warnings that a nor’easter is gathering force and about to slam the Island, bringing not only powerful winds and surging tides but also inland flooding, which is often…