The New Bedford-based company already developing one wind farm south of the Vineyard was one of three that won the right to develop additional wind farms in a highly competitive auction.

The first quarter moon appears tonight near the bright red planet Mars.

There is no need to get a bee in your bonnet about bugs in your Christmas tree.

Three species of mergansers visit the Vineyard at this time of the year. Two of them — the red-breasted and the hooded mergansers — are quite common, but the third is not.

A record quahaug spawn at the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group comes as a boon to Island towns this year where saltwater ponds are seeded annually as part of shellfish management programs.

A thin crescent moon appears low in the southwestern sky tomorrow night.