Monthly Archives: August 2024
Seeing the forest for the trees
The clearing of the homeless from the State Forest last week was startling and callous. But one thing remains quite clear, we don’t have...
The Supreme Court term: winners and losers part two
In a major 2024 landmark decision, the Supreme Court undercut the authority of the federal administrative agencies in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. This...
A right to self determination
To the Editor:
The recent coverage of the grim situation in Gaza, and various responses to the ongoing horror from the Jewish community is valuable....
Object to Jewish celebration coverage
To the Editor:
I am writing in response to the coverage in the Martha’s Vineyard Times of the recent Jewish Culture Festival and the selected...
A thank you to good Samaritan
To the Editor:
As I was nearing the end of my walk in Menemsha Hills Friday morning, I realized that my cell phone — including...
Outgoing Island rep endorses Moakley
With the state primary elections less than a month away, outgoing State Rep. Dylan Fernandes, who represents the Vineyard, has thrown his endorsement behind...
Jewish festival exceeded permitted ticket sales
West Tisbury officials voiced their displeasure with the organizers of the Jewish Cultural Festival for selling too many tickets.
The festival organized by Chabad on...
Young filmmaker screens new documentary
On Thursday, August 1, the Martha’s Vineyard Museum hosted the screening of “Ms. West,” a documentary created by 16-year-old filmmaker Zoe Alphonse.
Zoe, who...
Coming home
A new, upcoming exhibit by artist Lily Morris places the viewer in the middle of a storm, in the midst of the magnificence of...
Peaceful wild things in Hannah Moore exhibit
The captivating delicacy of Hannah Moore’s new watercolor exhibition “Into the Peace of Wild Things” at the Moore Family Gallery is extraordinary.
The show’s title...
Islands receive special designation in new housing law
Updated, Aug. 7
On Tuesday Gov. Maura Healey signed into law what her office calls the single largest housing bond bill ever filed in Massachusetts....
Delita Martin’s ‘Sometimes My Blues Change Color’
Entering Delita Martin’s exhibition “Sometimes My Blues Change Color” at Featherstone Center for the Arts is a transformative experience. Along the wall are impressively...
Paper, pigment, and process — the medium is the message
Art Nouveau with an attitude; artist Meg Black uses a papermaking technique to emulate the dynamic quality of nature.
Black uses a very unusual process...
Robyn Twomey’s ‘Take It Personal’ exhibit
Robyn Twomey’s exhibition, “Take It Personal,” at the West Tisbury library through August 31, sings with the souls of those she portrays on camera....
Dogcharmer: Four-legged poachers
Dear Dog Charmer,
My eight year old daughter Cloe and I got home from her soccer game where she scored two goals. As a celebration...
Second Acts: Stephanie Browne
Stephanie Browne’s labor of love — introducing others to the joys of good wine — has brought together two very significant, but seemingly unrelated...
Wild Side: Tiger beetles
A favorite activity for my wife and I is canoeing on the Vineyard’s bays and great ponds. Our canoe is a lumbering brute, heavy,...
‘Dancing in the Streets’
Get your dancing shoes on because on Friday, August 9, at 5 pm in Ocean Park, you can dance with the world-renowned Dance Theater...
Driven by inequality
As the daughter of a doctor who received his medical training in the Jim Crow days of the early 1950s, I found the parallels...
Academic honors
Graduation
Ruby Remington Suman, of Aquinnah, from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Suman graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree.
Kenneth Robert Hatt, of Edgartown, from University of Massachusetts...