Charles Sennott
Our membership model helps sustain community-supported journalism
To our readers,
Thank you for helping us to become New England’s 2025 Newspaper of the Year. We are honored by this award, and honored...
Like a hurricane: Local news crisis is a relentless and destructive force
The crisis in local news keeps gathering strength, like a hurricane taking shape in more and more ominous ways. Its destructive force is being...
A note from the publisher
Change isn't always easy.
And at The MV Times these days, we are taking on some big changes by shifting to our new membership model,...
Launching MV Times membership for community-supported news
We are thrilled to launch our new MV Times membership program. this means you, our readers, can join our community in a more tangible...
‘Jaws,’ capitalism and Fidel Castro
“It was 1975, and Fidel Castro was reading ‘Jaws.’”
Wendy Benchley shared that complex shard of history with me. She’s the widow of Peter Benchley,...
Let’s stand together with the Brazilian community to uphold the rule of law
Donning masks and Kevlar vests loaded with tactical gear, a platoon of armed federal agents in unmarked vehicles landed on our shores last week,...
After Pope Francis, who will carry his legacy?
As Pope Francis was laid to rest in Rome this week, and the Vatican prepares for a historic conclave to elect a new pope,...
On the 250th anniversary of the “Shot Heard ’Round the World,” what does it...
LEXINGTON — Patriots’ Day weekend is truly one of the great New England rites of spring.
A small army of Islanders marched off to Lexington...
A drumroll for the next generation of Island writers …
Our small Island has produced an outsize and truly extraordinary legacy of celebrated writers through the years.
A question for us to ponder is, How...
Struggles of immigration — as ancient as the Bible, as modern as picket signs...
The global movement of people seeking to flee tyranny, poverty, and violence, or to search for freedom in a distant land, is a continuum...
A note of gratitude: Community support is how we sustain local news
One year ago, I walked into 30 Beach Road here in Vineyard Haven to start a “part-time” job as publisher of this weekly newspaper....
Why community-supported local news matters now more than ever
The Rotary Club of Martha’s Vineyard gathered in a small knot around the American flag at the Portuguese-American Club in Oak Bluffs yesterday and...
Planets align for autumn, stars rise at The Times
Summer slipped away on Sunday morning at exactly 8:43 am amid a light rain and cool temperatures, as the gray skies shifted to the...
On a perfect morning, a time to remember
The intense clarity of the morning sky here on the Island yesterday reminded me of that moment in American history that changed everything on...
1968 Redux: Islanders at the Chicago convention reflect on then and now, Part 2
Across the Island from Katama’s South Beach to the cliffs of Aquinnah, the flickering blue glow of television can be seen through the windows...
1968 Redux: Islanders at the Chicago convention reflect on then and now
It is safe to say that many people here on the Island will be riveted next week, with the Democratic National Convention in Chicago...
HarborWorks and sailing into the future
The view from the publisher’s office of The Martha’s Vineyard Times looks out over the weathered, gray-shingled boatyard of the world-renowned Gannon & Benjamin...
‘A Timely Issue’
The front page of the newspaper has yellowed into a sepia tone in the frame that hangs in my office overlooking Vineyard Haven Harbor,...
A moment of awe; a time for transformation
The moon moved slowly between the sun and earth, obscuring the light of the sun. The sky dimmed, and the temperature dropped. A strange...
The ‘first rough draft’ covering Island schools
In the bright, unforgiving light of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School cafeteria, a cluster of a dozen parents — all immigrants from Brazil...