Don’t just bury the children
As we report elsewhere today, our regional high school’s student council is organizing a walkout this Friday, and Charter School students are chartering a bus to go to a march on Washington, both...
View ArticleImmigration reform, or not: The Court will decide
By Jack Fruchtman Debate over immigration continues to roil the country; it is an issue of great interest to members of the Island immigrant community and those who support them. With the inability or...
View ArticleBlew Lagoon
What happened at last week’s Oak Bluffs planning board meeting should have never happened. Erik Albert, a member of the planning board, was participating remotely in the discussion of Lagoon Ridge, a...
View ArticleA nifty bit of salvage work, and some history
Except for the hard north-northeasterly wind, the gray skies, the spitting rain, the submerged dock, and the four yachts driven ashore along the beach, it might have been a July Saturday at Owen Park....
View ArticleBlown away
A few quick thoughts while we wait for the next big blow to hit the Island. Beach Road reboot: Any redesign of Beach Road in Vineyard Haven that doesn’t include protection for Beach Road from...
View ArticleAn update on surgery, and taking aim at gun violence
By Dylan Fernandes Right before Christmas, I underwent a six-hour surgery to remove a foot-and-half-long and nearly three-pound benign tumor from my left thigh. I would be missing public events for...
View ArticleWe’re a resilient bunch
By now, we should be beleaguered. Three storms in 10 days, two of them powerful storms that knocked us in the teeth and put us on our heels. But we don’t see that. We see resiliency. We see people...
View ArticleMassachusetts needs to pass gun control
Gun violence is an epidemic that plagues our communities, and takes the lives of so many of our citizens, including our children. At the time of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in...
View ArticleSolar is under attack
For years Massachusetts has proudly led our nation’s growing solar energy economy, harnessing local sunshine and local innovation to create jobs and lower energy bills in communities across the...
View ArticleCome for a visit, Governor
There are no lack of issues on Martha’s Vineyard that could use some state attention — affordable housing, the opioid crisis, and finding ways for seniors to remain in their homes, among them. We could...
View ArticleEssay: Young people speaking their minds
“It’s time we stop Hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look — what’s going down?” What is that sound? My heart working in overdrive, beating to the rhythm of my newly acquired, politically elevated blood...
View ArticleThis is personal
It’s gotten to the point where we show up at the ferry terminal with one eye open, because we just can’t bear to look. Will there be an orange gate across the end of the ferry ramp? Will Steamship...
View ArticleThe court, the First Amendment, and Island life
Three current Supreme Court cases that the justices are just now considering could have an impact on Vineyarders and visitors to the Island. They all have to do with the First Amendment, which, among...
View ArticleA look at why $400,000 override is needed
This year’s West Tisbury warrant seeks your approval of $19.8 million in appropriations. The tax levy amount is $400,000 more than the maximum amount allowed by law. Therefore, you are also being asked...
View ArticleWest Tisbury selectmen justify override request
While there are no contested offices in this year’s annual town election, the town of West Tisbury will — for the first time in 14 years (2004) — need to turn to its voters to pass a Proposition 2½...
View ArticleGet out and vote
Update April 6 It’s town meeting time, that annual foray into citizen government when every registered voter can show up and let his voice be heard and her votes counted. In Tisbury, a lot of voters...
View ArticleLessons learned, we hope
What happened for a short time at last Wednesday’s Tisbury town meeting was disappointing, unacceptable, and should never happen again. When a reporter and photographer from The Times arrived an hour...
View ArticleBarbara Bush sets example for making end-of-life choices
Barbara Bush, who died on April 16, has made a great contribution to all Americans — and especially elders and their families — by publicly talking about and making clear her decision to choose...
View ArticleDisappointing school vote
Commitment to constructing a $46.6 million replacement for the Tisbury School failed by 21 votes on Tuesday, 567-546. After a six-year planning process, and following on the heels of overwhelming...
View ArticleFirearms: Prospects for change
In the aftermath of hundreds of thousands of marchers throughout the nation demanding new gun control measures after the horrifying February event in Parkland, Fla., what can we expect from Congress...
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