I could not have been happier with the lovely rain last Saturday afternoon.

A heat wave and Fourth of July crowds have resulted in a flurry of medical issues that kept Island emergency responders busy this week.

George Eliot, pen name for novelist and poet Mary Anne Evans, captured my feelings when she explained, “Certain winds will make men’s temper bad.”

Torrents of rain from recent storms have caused Vineyard Great Ponds to rise to historic levels, threatening shellfish and surrounding homes.

Nothing was truer for February than the proverb “when it rains, it pours.”

Mud season may have come early this year, or it could just be an episode of early mini-mud.