The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has decided it will not be renewing the lease for a substance-use recovery and healing center that has helped hundreds of Islanders, a decision based on the hospital’s ...

Kim Murphy graduated from MVRHS in 1996. She called herself a “bad kid,” meaning that she didn’t get too excited about high ...

Thank you, Brian and Brooke Ditchfield, and all the staff and numerous volunteers that made this weekend’s 25th anniversary of the M.V. Film Festival wondrous, brilliant, and so much fun. Thank you ...

Another lovely Vineyard summer morning. Your house guests have (finally) departed, one of you is pouring the coffee, the other buttering the toast, and you both are looking forward to some peace and ...

In 2014, our committee was appointed by the West Tisbury select board to meet voter directives. Our purpose was to collect data to establish a baseline for determining the water quality and general ...

At the upcoming town meeting on April 8, and the subsequent town election on April 10, West Tisbury voters will be asked to decide on a $1,653,835.64 general override ballot question. We are writing ...

The Mill Pond is much more than simply a beautiful body of water. To many of us, it is a shining reflection of the soul of West Tisbury, and the beating heart of our town. It deserves to be saved. The ...

There are four very good reasons why we should all vote YES to phase out gas-powered leaf blowers, a regulation that will be on the docket this spring at our town meetings. First of all, we are ...

A big shout-out, more like a loud country holler, to the lady Vols of the League of Women Voters. The recent gathering at the beautiful Edgartown library meeting room was packed to hear the current ...

As a decades-long Vineyard resident and close observer of the SSA, it was with considerable dismay that I finished reading the letter from the opaque “Steamship Authority Citizens’ Action Group ...

Islanders Write was another Vineyard miracle that encouraged me to take my writing to a new level. The slate of accomplished authors and instructors used their skills to extract better prose from the ...

I am compelled to write concerning the Green Villa development before the MVC, for several reasons. The first is the four-unit strip mall commercial component. This is a truly bad idea. I think you ...