Doug Cabral
Nantucket travel lags the Vineyard in first five months
Steamship Authority traffic through the first five months of the year was up between Woods Hole and the Vineyard and flat or down for Nantucket-Hyannis travel.
Island soldiers overseas need your generous help
The effort continues to support Island soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
You’ve got to do better, or bugger off
Boring and numbingly repetitive, not to mention often vile, intemperate, and pointless.
The regulators have their data, fishermen need their own – and a plan
The ferment in the fishing community, in reaction to threats to the industry's health and to the internal contraction among participants and within markets, began several years ago and began accelerating recently.
It’s our birthday. Look up with a smile.
As a nation, we grouse too much.
From the corner where I tossed them
Publishers send us dozens of books each year.
A good idea is what you make of it
In his May report to the Tisbury selectmen, Robert Wasserman's Strategic Policy Partnership outlines the steps to be taken if Tisbury and Oak Bluffs elect to merge their police forces.
In this business, you’ve got to have a plan
Newspaper people have plenty to worry about, what with the recession and the World's Wild Web.
Court orders Peter Martell reinstated and reimbursed by Oak Bluffs
A Dukes County Superior Court judge sided with dismissed Oak Bluffs fire investigator Peter Martell and ordered him reinstated, and awarded the 37-year department veteran damages and attorney's fees.
A chance to speak up about the cost of electricity
The Cape Wind deal to sell the electric power that the planned Nantucket Sound wind farm may one day produce will certainly cost electricity end-users more than conventionally produced power.
A recipe for working together
Last week in this space, I suggested that expansion of what is today a modest use of cooperative or regionalized services will be, as it has shown itself over decades to be, difficult.
Real estate advertising feature added
In support of the Island real estate industry and real estate advertisers, The Times has added a new feature to the paper's real estate classified advertising section.
This is no way to commence
It is distressing to think that members of the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School's Class of 2010 will commence their post-graduate lives Sunday in a spirit of controversy and division.
Regionalization is a people to people business
Helping one another, at the family, social, and municipal levels, is understood and practiced, almost flawlessly, on Martha's Vineyard.
Susan Mercier joins Vineyard Stories
Susan Mercier, formerly of Edgartown Books, has joined Vineyard Stories as the market specialist for the Island book publishing company, according to Jan Pogue, owner of Vineyard Stories.
A high price for a modest contribution
The May 7 announcement of a 15-year deal between Cape Wind and National Grid prices electricity created by wind turbines at 20.
UMass study suggests regionalization of some services, in the interest of efficiency
Real estate and other taxes paid by year-round and summer residents of the six Island towns support regional, municipal, and educational services to the tune of $68 million.
They’re home
Writing the other day to a daughter, I recalled for her an occasion when my practices — long ago as a new, young parent — came into conflict with the seasoned practices of my own parents.
‘Tis that season (shudder)
The season of Vineyard disgruntlement is upon us.