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.
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.
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.
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.
Jammin’ together
Some of you won't agree, naturally, but I think we've reached a tremulous equilibrium as regards online comments posted to mvtimes.
Real estate “” is it who we are?
The news this morning is that the real estate market shows unmistakable signs of stabilizing.
It’s a matter of wait and see
I've decided to do a lot more cursing than has been my habit.
Spring whispers
A small gale slams against the slider and, bending the old, weakened aluminum frame in an arc, finds its unruly way into my room.
The love doctor is in and online
If you're an Islander, young or old, looking for love in all of the few available places and unsuccessful, the Internet has you covered. If you've been to one potluck after another, till you...
Nothing Smart about it
Nowadays, it's all about mileage and doing the right thing. When I was a kid, it was all about style, or at least our dim, dumb sense of style. Kids hankered after GTOs, Vettes,...
Clumsy and costly
There is no apparent link between the Steamship Authority's demand that Ralph Packer's Tisbury Towing get a license to transport freight to and from Martha's Vineyard with its tugs and barges and the boatline's...
Gotta shop
Until a few years ago, we worried that Islanders had got into the habit of shopping at the Hyannis Mall or BJs or the other mainland big box stores, especially for Christmas. Supporting this...
Change on the way
In the bowels of The Martha's Vineyard Times' techno center, things are humming. Change is on the way at mvtimes.com. In the nearly two decades that the newspaper has published a web site, it's...