Margaret Marshall is certainly no Pollyanna, but something about speaking with her kindles optimism.The former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has a way of looking at things...

Tisbury will begin assessing $1,000 a day against the contractor for the town’s troubled new emergency services building.The town selectmen voted without dissent on Tuesday to begin charging...

It’s fair to say millions, possibly even billions, more people have heard Arnold McCuller than have heard of Arnold McCuller.If you’ve heard the music of Phil Collins, or Bonnie Raitt,...

A few months ago, Donatella Rovera was under rocket fire in Misrata, Libya. A couple of weeks ago Salil Shetty was in the slums of Suez, in Egypt, meeting with the families of the first casualties of...

On the face of it, Suellen Lazarus might seem an odd person to have started a book festival. She was a banker, not a professional bibliophile or bookstore owner or writer.But in a way, it was her...

Out in the middle of Meshacket Cove on the Edgartown Great Pond on Wednesday morning, David Schlezinger was going down for the third time, in nine feet of water.He wasn’t drowning, though. It...

Let’s face it, there are few pursuits more quixotic than that of journalistic objectivity. The preview screening of the documentary movie Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle in Oak Bluffs on...

Ultimately, war is merely the continuation of politics by other means. But intimately, it’s all about sociology and biology.And that’s the aspect of war which engaged Sebastian Junger, in...

The overflow crowd gathered at the Chilmark Public Library to hear renowned Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday evening did not know it going in, but they were about to hear from an...

The town of Tisbury is pushing to have the Island stop using the grant-writing company whose mistake cost the Vineyard $2 million in state community development block grants for next year...