Today is Valentine’s Day, a day to kiss your sweetheart, buy your baby a bouquet or bestow a box of chocolates on that special someone. Lacking a human worthy of your romantic love, take a moment to hug your dog, pat your cat or say something pleasant to a neighbor or a friend. It’s February; we can all use a little warmth.

Although now in its second generation, the Brazilian community is still largely perceived as an island unto itself, isolated from the mainstream Vineyard community.

Maybe the long winter is causing short tempers, but it seems like the mere mention of Stop & Shop these days is met by a spew of fury.

Tom Hodgson, who is not a groundhog but a West Tisburyite of long repute, saw and photographed snowdrops last weekend at his usual spot on Music street.

On-Island, community-based, homegrown: these are the virtues we tend to celebrate. So it is that the decision by the Vineyard Nursing Association to sell out to an off-Island home health care group doesn’t sit easily.

This week the selectmen in the shire town approved a request by a new homeowner to remove four old shade trees on South Water street in Edgartown.