Spring is coming, unlikely as that seems. At the animal shelter, we’ve got the first kittens of the season.

In America's earliest years, the waters surrounding the young country were vulnerable to foreign invasion, principally by the British Navy.

Dodgers Hole is more than a nifty address. It’s a kettle pond situated in Edgartown just west of Majors Cove on Sengekontacket Pond. But what is a kettle pond, you ask?

Edgartown selectmen received complaints last week about the line of vehicles that forms at the ferry to Chappaquiddick, which they say hampers access to their homes and poses a safety hazard in peak season.

At the Polly Hill Arboretum, horticulturalist Ian Jochems has started planting trees in the frozen ground — not living trees, but important stand-ins: tree-shaped panels that make up a traveling outdoor exhibit. Vanishing Acts: Trees Under Threat will be at the Arboretum from mid-March to June.