Patricia Bergeron, former longtime president of the Portuguese-American Club, and Roy Scheffer, a patriarch of the Island's shellfishing industry, died on Thursday, the result of a boating accident.

Tatiana Schlossberg, a journalist, author and lifelong seasonal resident of Aquinnah, died on Dec. 30. The cause, as reported in national news outlets, was leukemia.

The Island was buffeted by winds from the south in 2025, fueled not by high and low pressure airflows matching wits along the jet stream, but launched from Washington by a new President set on making his mark near and far.

We have a Christmas adoption to report! Grace, the six-year-old tortoiseshell who is as sweet as can be, found her wonderful, forever home on Christmas eve.

Thirteen groups fanned across the Island Sunday for the annual Christmas Bird Count to see how many species they could identify.