Sarah Shaw Dawson
Hospital dropping Red House lease
Updated, April 3
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has decided it will not be renewing the lease for a substance-use recovery and healing center that has...
Exclusive Chilmark property to host Jewish Festival
Updated April 8th.
Chabad on Martha’s Vineyard has nailed down a new location in Chilmark for its annual and popular Jewish Culture Festival held in...
Island towns diving into housing production planning
Updated March 27th.
Local boards across the Vineyard are starting to create a town-by-town plan to address housing issues and their next step is hearing...
Finding solutions for turbulent insurance market
A Cape and Islands lawmaker is trying to bridge the growing gap between homeowners and a turbulent insurance market with the introduction of two...
FAIR Plan insurance creates workaround on $1 million cap
The most common insurance plan on the Island, which several thousand locals rely on, has announced a new policy change that will make it...
Islanders Write: Workshop Vignettes
Writers as young as 6 years old gathered at Featherstone Center for the Arts over the weekend to attend The MV Times' first midwinter...
Islanders Write draws locals of all ages, styles, and skills
Read more about workshop vignettes from Islanders Write on Saturday and Sunday here.
More than 70 Islanders made their way to Featherstone Center for the...
Questions still linger on State Forest cutting plan
The state’s plan to cut nearly 175 acres of pine plantations in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest was presented in a small meeting...
Public comment reopened on State Forest plan
State officials announced on Wednesday they have reopened a public comment period for a controversial project to clear some 175 acres of white pine...
Tariffs could further increase home insurance prices
The implementation of tariffs on lumber, oil, and other products related to construction could have a direct impact on housing and home insurance costs...
A call to pause State Forest cutting plan
Updated on March 5th.
On the eve of the release of a highly anticipated plan to cut 175 acres of white pines from the Island’s...
A path to restoring a damaged waterway
In a hotly contested issue over a brook circuit that runs through multiple ponds across West Tisbury and Chilmark, a West Tisbury town committee...
Harbor Homes winter shelter to move March 1st
Harbor Homes — the only overnight winter shelter for the unhoused on Martha’s Vineyard — is officially moving its operations on March 1.
The...
Learning from local voices
Updated, Feb. 26
Through the artwork-covered halls of the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School and inside a large classroom, around 20 fifth and sixth grade...
MV Community Services welcomes new CEO
Martha’s Vineyard Community Services (MVCS) is welcoming a new chief executive officer (CEO) in mid March, Dean Teague, to head its operations following the...
Nobody injured in Edgartown fire
First responders sprang into action to extinguish a house fire on Tuesday, Feb. 18, in Edgartown.
The Edgartown Fire Department responded to the report of...
Opening up uncertainty
Editor’s note: This story was in collaboration with the Cape and Islands NPR station CAI, and reporter Eve Zuckoff. It is the latest in...
Islanders score a reprise of ‘Eyes on the Prize’
Three Islanders had a hand in a six-part documentary series called “Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015,”...
What’s next for the Island’s unhoused population?
The Island’s only shelter for the unhoused is forced to move next month, and their search for a permanent building further highlights a gap...
Islanders protest against Trump’s recent executive orders
More than 20 Islanders stood out at Five Corners on Feb. 5 protesting numerous executive orders Donald Trump has signed since taking office Jan....