As anxiety swirls around a looming cut to federal funding for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services’ veterans counseling ...

Edgartown voters are facing potential leaf-blower bans, a $2 million request for sewer designs, and the return of the party ...

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

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 ...

A proposed housing development, Green Villa, is before the Martha’ Commission for review. The commission rarely denies proposed projects. Instead, the 17 commissioners generally approve projects and ...

We are headed toward a recession, and possibly a depression. I hope town departments and agencies are not planning an increase in their budgets. I also hope the voters in the town meetings this spring ...

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 ...

Driving around lately, I have noticed a number of stands of white pine trees. One in particular, along State Road entering West Tisbury, part of a Land Bank property, has naturalized harmoniously with ...

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 ...

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”  –the 14th Amendment to the U.S.

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 ...

I’m writing to draw attention to Article 87 on the town warrant for the Edgartown town meeting. Please consider voting yes on this article. The article will compel the select board to sell the lot at ...