Mary Jo (Jody) Reston, former co-owner and publisher of the Vineyard Gazette, died in Sarasota, Fla on Monday, Feb. 12 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 86.

Rez Williams, an acclaimed Island artist known for his large-scale paintings of boats and his devotion to Island conservation, died in Boston on Sunday, Feb. 4. He was 81.

Featherstone Center of the Arts bings its 2024 season with an exhibit called Love Laugh Leap Live! An opening reception takes place Sunday, Feb. 4 from 4 to 6 p.m.

The conditions were promising for the Christmas Bird Count count — not too cold, not too windy and no fog — as 13 teams fanned out around the Island for the annual check-in with our avian community.

Robert Solow, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, longtime professor at MIT, winner of the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 2014 and Chilmark summer resident since 1962, died on Dec. 21

The other night, while picking out a Christmas tree with my family, an older man approached me, holding a bouquet of holly branches. “I’m in love with your wife,” he told me.