Editorial

Here are some thoughts about the recent primary election and the upcoming general election less than two months away:   A lot is being made of Joseph Kennedy III’s loss to U.S. Sen. Ed Markey...

January is the start of a new year. Spring is the season of renewal. But there may be no more important beginning than September and the start of a new school year. Typically, we’d be...

The role of the comment feature found on many newspaper and other news content websites, and on ours until a couple of weeks ago, has bedeviled editors and publishers for years. When fully active,...

To demonstrate just how egregious it was that the Tisbury select board denied a common victualer’s license to Vineyard Grocer, we first have to provide a little history of the process. A common victualer’s license...

We’ve reported a couple of stories about dogs recently that have been disappointing, given the Island’s and our love of pups. What allegedly happened to Max the dog is infuriating. Edgartown Police were called by...

We are four and a half months into this coronavirus pandemic in the United States, and our testing for the virus remains woefully inadequate, despite President Trump’s almost daily proclamation that the U.S. has...

This Thursday we will celebrate National Intern Day, and at The Times there is plenty of reason for celebration this year. We already had intern applications before the coronavirus pandemic was in full swing by...

On the night Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School officials met with executives of the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society to talk about using the venue as a backup graduation site, we received an email from...

A friend posted this on Facebook: “It's ironic the issue of wearing face coverings has unmasked the selfishness of so many people in this country.” That boils down the whole mask debate into one sentence....

It was a telling scene on the night of June 29. Tisbury Fire Chief John Schilling, working his last day on the job, got a call on his pager for an illegal fire at...

Election season is finally over. After being delayed for more than two months because of the pandemic, the last voters from West Tisbury cast their ballots on Thursday, with hand sanitizer in high demand. Elections...

Hello Martha’s Vineyard visitors, we’ve been expecting you. We welcome you every year through our ferry terminals, our public docks, and our airport. We embrace the additional traffic at Five Corners and the Triangle....

Food trucks and where they can — mostly can’t — be located is the issue that has grabbed the attention of Tisbury’s select board.  While Edgartown has been meeting and working with the town’s restaurant owners...

Last Thursday night, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission heard the latest iteration of Meeting House Place, a large-scale development on Meetinghouse Way in Edgartown that has become the latest NIMBY proposal on Martha’s Vineyard. It promises...

You are used to seeing our staff editorials in this space. In light of the events in Minneapolis and around the country over the last week, we felt it was appropriate to use this...

This week, Martha’s Vineyard Hospital began accepting patients for some elective procedures, a return to a bit of normalcy in a place that’s been thrust into the frontline of a worldwide pandemic. As confirmed cases...

The Steamship Authority likes to use the moniker “lifeline to the islands,” and with good reason — the ferry service was created by legislation for just that purpose. It’s the only way to get...

It’s Memorial Day weekend, and the Vineyard is observing this national holiday which asks us to remember the deaths of fallen American soldiers. In an odd coupling, this is also the weekend when we...

Jim Malkin, the Vineyard’s new representative to the Steamship Authority board for a little more than two months, has already made some waves — and for that the entire Island should be grateful. Yes, Malkin misspoke...

Today’s edition of The MV Times follows a six-week suspension of print publication. In mid-March (seems like five years ago), faced with the almost unfathomable uncertainties of Island life following the arrival of COVID-19,...