Encourage more volunteers
We’re always struck by the number of people who give of themselves to make their communities a better place to live. Four years ago we started a tradition of highlighting some of those volunteers...
2021 by the numbers
Our first full year dealing with a pandemic is coming to a close. While 2020 was partially affected by COVID-19 beginning in March, this year we’ve lived with the effects of the virus throughout....
Green’s involvement in field project must end
Having spoken to Laura Green, Ph.D., over the past couple of weeks, we understand how proponents of the synthetic turf field became enamored with her. She has an easygoing style as she talks about...
Listen to the voters
Town meetings are often referred to as the purest form of democracy. Unlike a presidential election where your one vote is counted among millions and, in a blue state like Massachusetts, doesn’t do much...
Baker was a solid leader
Gov. Charlie Baker has mostly done a good job leading Massachusetts, and we’ll miss that leadership for a number of reasons. Along with a further erosion of a two-party system in the commonwealth, Gov....
Stick to the facts
When you’re attempting to make a case for change, it’s a good idea to base your opinion on facts.
For several years, Woods Hole residents have been complaining about the Woods Hole terminal project being...
Weathering the storm
Last week we hosted a screening of “Storm Lake,” the documentary about the Storm Lake Times, a two-times-a-week newspaper in Storm Lake, Iowa.
If you missed the viewing at M.V. Film Center, you can still...
Project’s failure cemented
We could barely believe our eyes. Walking to work on a bright fall day, the sound of a jackhammer filled the morning air, while a large excavator near Five Corners picked up huge chunks...
Continued mask mandate makes sense
The easy thing to do for the Island boards of health would be to lift the indoor mask mandate. After all, cases are way down on the Vineyard, and the summer crowds are long...
Flooded with lessons: Will we listen?
That Oct. 25-26 nor’easter sure did pack a wallop. Trees were uprooted, massive limbs detached, and some up-Island roads looked more like a slalom course than a roadway — a very dangerous, wire-laden slalom course....
Protected and served
Three years ago we wrote about the case of Vera Pratt, an elderly Chilmark woman who was bilked out of more than $3.5 million by a Florida woman purporting to be a psychic who...
Tale of two transactions
Steve Bernier is doing something rare for a business owner.
Despite having an established business — two supermarkets and a health food store — that could garner him and his family millions if he were to sell...
Time to make the change
Whenever someone on the Island has a need, the Martha’s Vineyard community rallies in support.
It’s time for the Island to do what the state legislature has failed to do once again. It’s time for...
Need for ‘new blood’ is clear
We’ve said before that Tisbury select board chair Jeff Kristal should resign. He won’t. So it’s going to be up to voters to remove him from office, should he choose to run for re-election.
Kristal...
Give civics its due
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School now requires seniors to take a civics course.
The course, which will be taught in a lecture hall format in the school’s Performing Arts Center, will tackle issues like climate...
Never forget
The following editorial was first published in The Times on Sept. 20, 2001, in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Political organizations such as ours — diverse, dispersed, and democratic — regularly defeat efforts to apply clear-eyed...
Make it happen
The death of Hannah Malany lozzo, a 20-year-old woman from West Brookfield on the Island for a family vacation, has once again stoked the desire to ban mopeds.
In 2017, the issue was at the...
Making progress
We were chatting with a source the other day when he told us something very impressive. At this moment, there are affordable housing projects either in development or actually being constructed in all six...
What’s truly ‘contemptible and dangerous’
Last week, Tisbury town administrator Jay Grande took the rare approach of issuing a press release to criticize our reporting on the David Thrift case. Grande knew the story was coming for months. We...