In praise of the warm weather and approach of spring, this week the editors looked back to Henry Beetle Hough and two of his essays on the coming season.

Chilmark poet, author and distinguished elder citizen Margaret Howe Freydberg turns one hundred and seven today, an age so remarkable that you have to just stop and say it again.

The Tisbury department of public works has come under some deserved criticism for its less than stellar performance during this winter’s serial snowstorms, and surely an operational review is in order.

Scattered throughout the six Vineyard towns is a cross section of nearly every type of American residential architecture.

He began writing for the Gazette only three years ago although it seemed like Will Monast had been around forever. Quietly competent, he was self-taught in all things, from carpentry to fishing to writing.

The deplorable condition of the Vineyard’s historic movie theatres and what can be done about them has occupied more than a few dinner table conversations in recent years.