The announcement this week that more decision-making for the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and other community hospitals will be shifted to their parent corporation is being billed as an efficiency move that won’t affect patient care.
The lack of affordable housing on Martha’s Vineyard has reached a crisis, where businesses and essential services are being increasingly hobbled by an inability to find workers.
The time is way past due for an upgrade to the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, a major capital spending project that is projected to cost at least $100 million.
A reader once remarked that her favorite parts of the Gazette were the town columns, because they made her feel like the Vineyard was a place where she could belong.
It’s time for a new school in Tisbury. Past time, to be sure, but at this stage there is no need to dwell on the past and every reason to look to the future.
With the Steamship Authority’s online reservation system now back online, it’s time for the boat line to let the public know what happened — and how its hacked technology was restored.