Opinion

This will be the first Thanksgiving I will not sit crammed between a cousin, nephew, or brother whose elbows dig into my ribs each time they take a bite.

For nearly two years, between 2006 and 2008, members of the Dukes County charter study commission probed and debated the state charter that enables county government as we know it.

We've been putting things in boxes, looking through the debris collected during a couple of decades and four kids.

Birds have been my best teachers lately.

I wonder if the Patriots would have looked so bad Sunday, if you couldn't see them.

The dirt bike noise debate in West Tisbury illustrates sharply some of the ill-fitting characteristics of growth and change.

A patron stopped at the Edgartown Library desk last Wednesday and asked when The Martha's Vineyard Times planned to publish its annual property tax listings.

If you are one of those who look, and sometimes find, a silver lining, I challenge you.

Young people and police are often uneasy about one another.

Begin with a bit of regret, because after all, oncoming winter will not wait.

This morning's Editorial, including the editor's recommendations for voters making choices Tuesday in the state election, appears in the special Voter's Guide in this morning's print edition on pages 21-24, 38, 43 and online via a link at the top of the home page.

The story of the fish pier proposal, now under Martha's Vineyard Commission review as a development of regional impact, offers lessons in the uncertain value of public debate.

This page is relentlessly in favor of libraries.

What Every Immigrant Needs to Know, hosted by the Martha's Vineyard Council for Young Children, is an informational fair with various providers offering services all should know about.

Rushing water surrounds Pasque Island.

Unless there is lurking somewhere a great white shark of an argument against constructing a fishing pier off the North Bluff shore of Oak Bluffs, the Martha's Vineyard Commission, considering the proposal as a development of regional impact (DRI), ought to approve enthusiastically.

Back in December of last year, a lively online discussion was sparked when this newspaper reported that Edgartown voters would be asked, at our 2010 annual town meeting, to borrow $4 million to build a new public library.

It's settled.

We welcome the shift in the Patrick administration's wind energy development focus from state waters to federal waters.

The unalloyed partisans on each end of the Horseshoe Shoals wind farm debate have little to offer the rest of us who must find a way to evaluate this impressive proposal.