Peter Oberfest

Going back to Puritan New England, Americans have considered themselves the rightful beneficiaries of God’s grace. We entered into a contract with God —...

My editorial betters — just about everyone I know with newspaper experience — have taught me this cardinal principal: Don’t bury the lede. So...

In last week's (10/27/2016) issue of the Martha’s Vineyard Times we published a signed column (“Gone Hunting”) that included personal information regarding a person...

Newspapers, including small community newspapers, have a particular duty to observe the deaths of journalists around the world as they do their jobs. The...

In the course of crafting perhaps 1,500 Times editorials, Doug did his best to make sure that we were always posing the same question — what does this warrant article, or proposal, or project, or candidate, or for that matter this obituary — what does this mean for all of us, for the whole Vineyard community? Sometimes channeling his inner H.L. Mencken, sometimes E. B. White, Doug prodded and chided so we would take it all in.

The entire Martha’s Vineyard Times web team continues to  work at restoring or adding new features and functions at www.mvtimes.com. It appears that after a...

The roll-out of the new mvtimes.com site continues, with many comments from readers – as part of the comment feature visible to all readers as...