This Saturday, June 6, is National Trails Day, an opportunity to celebrate the great outdoors.

We are in uncertain times, with many aspects of daily life changing.

Memorial Day weekend has come, and gone, and with it a significant milestone — the ground nesting and shore birds are well into their nesting season.

The skyline of the most recent issue of the Vineyard Gazette was a quote from Sly Stone taken from the lyrics of Sly and the Family Stone’s wonderful song Those Summer Days.

The surprising personal criticisms of Jim Malkin, the Vineyard’s recently appointed SSA governor and chairman of the board, by three of the four other governors, do not bode well for righting the listing SSA ship.

We have owned a house in Vineyard Haven since 2005, we live in a small town in upstate New York similar to MV.