Editorials
Island Songlines
Picturesque snow quieted the Island a week ago, a reminder of how long, dark and lonely the wintertime can be here. Some say it’s...
County Charter: Good Lessons From Past
Sadly, the public has shown little interest so far in the work of the Dukes County Charter Study Commission...
Sticker Shock in West Tisbury
Staggering increases in property taxes in some areas of West Tisbury this year have come as a blow to residents,...
Regional Trash Disposal: Long Overdue
Fifteen years ago Tisbury and Oak Bluffs decided to pull out of the Vineyard’s regional solid waste disposal...
Backlash
In a strange and disturbing turn, much of the emotion aroused over a fatal Vineyard traffic accident in late January has shifted from...
School Bond, Town Obligation
The regional high school district committee was correct to rescind its vote on the sewage treatment bond issue once...
Winter Sunshine
Enrichment is indeed alive and well at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School where the education programs reach well beyond...
Sustainable Island
Four years ago the Vineyard Energy Project wrote a ten-year action plan outlining a series of strategies for the Island — which...
Louise Aldrich Bugbee: 1914-2008
Primary Colors
On Tuesday voters in Dukes County will go to the polls to cast ballots in the race for the Presidential nomination which has so...
In recent years, the faces of foreign workers on H2B visas have become a familiar part of the Vineyard’s seasonal employment mix. Indeed, their...
First Snowfall
It was and it wasn’t. The first snow, that is.
There was some in December, of course, and a little more in January. But it came...