Polly Hill Arboretum offers a way to get outdoors and explore the off season on the grounds.

Late tonight there is a pairing up of the gibbous moon and Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet.

Nearly a year after Hurricane Sandy battered beaches, bluffs and docks from Aquinnah to Oak Bluffs, some towns are still waiting for federal funding for repairs.

Madeleine Albright didn’t mince words. She emphatically insisted “there is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.”

Flip Harrington and I had our first yellow-rumped warbler and white-crowned sparrow in our Quenames bird bath on Oct. 19. The holly trees behind the bath provided shelter and probably insects for our first ruby-crowned kinglet.

A full house gathered last Tuesday night at the Vineyard Haven Public Library for a presentation of one of the most pressing issues facing the Island: coastal erosion. The program featured a screening of Kathie Rose’s short documentary The Breach, about erosion on Chappaquiddick, and a talk by Bob Woodruff detailing changes to the South Shore as a whole.