Editorials
The sun finally came out over the weekend, and so did more than a few unwary people, risking themselves and others.
The Island is hunkered down right now, with most people sheltering in place.
If there is a thread of positivity in the grim shroud of the looming pandemic, it is the way the Island’s elected leaders have come together to deal...
We wait for the inevitable arrival of the coronavirus like a slow-moving tidal wave, certain only that it will be terrible when it comes.
It is only a matter of time before COVID-19 reaches Martha’s Vineyard, and preparedness plans are emerging.
The Dukes County Commission made a sensible choice this week in appointing James Malkin as the new Steamship Authority governor for Martha’s Vineyard...
Joining their counterparts across the commonwealth, Island voters will go to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in the presidential primary. On the...
Shirtsleeves in January. Spring flowers in February. Buckets of rain, but no snow and ice. A single snowy owl. A dearth of sea ducks.
The startling news last week that more than 1,000 people on Martha’s Vineyard were served in January alone by the Island Food Pantry is cause for...
An osprey stands on a pole by the water near East Chop. It is mid-February but warm and the osprey is comfortable, it seems, being early to the...
Cold rain, mud and more rain.
Four years after he was lionized for strengthening the Massachusetts public records law, Gov. Charlie Baker has now quietly put forth a stunning...