The Island Grown Initiative has named Keith Wilda as its executive director as the growing nonprofit undergoes a reorganization this fall. IGI was founded in 2005 by Ali Berlow who was its first executive director.

After a period of dormancy, the Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen’s Preservation Trust has resurfaced with a renewed mission to support commercial fishermen.

As leading state environmental officials look to the Island’s offshore resources to further wind energy goals and mine sand for beach fill, a small but vocal crowd of Vineyarders are airing their concerns about tapping these resources to the detriment of the fisheries and other sea life.

A thin crescent moon appears low in the southwestern sky tomorrow night. The New Moon was yesterday.

Sea urchins are the hedgehogs of the sea. With their round hard bodies covered in spines, they easily live up to that nickname.

October 4 the feeders went up and we had our usual visitors, plus male and female eastern towhees and eastern phoebes.