An initiative to create a transfer fee on the Island to fund affordable housing is continuing to gain traction, with locals ...

With a ceremonious toss of a shovelful of dirt, the YMCA commemorated the newest expansion underway to its facilities: a nearly 40,000 square foot, three-level addition.  The YMCA held a ...

The Chilmark representative to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission is stepping down from his role.  Jay Grossman, a Chilmark ...

The Martha’s Vineyard Times is an independently owned, weekly, community newspaper, published by The MV Times News Corp. on the island of Martha’s Vineyard ...

To have the end result of a nine-month general manager search, conducted by an internationally respected transportation search firm, advance only one external candidate out of 131 applicants contacted ...

Isn’t it convenient to blame the people you serve, as you are about to announce what most would call a failed search? I am, of course, referring to comments from a few members of the Steamship ...

At its Nov. 3 meeting, the school committee will consider a major change to how the $300 million–plus high school renovation and addition project will be approved. Instead of requiring each town’s ...

Reports that the nine-person school committee plans to vote on Nov. 3 whether to circumvent spring 2026 town meetings in favor of an Island-wide simple majority vote to gain final approval of the ...

A forest fire is no joke — especially for those who risk their lives as firefighters to keep communities safe from danger. But are the white pines in Manuel F. Correllus State Forest truly the fire ...

Professor Suzanne Simard, a member of the faculty of forestry at the University of British Columbia, makes very good points regarding the complexity and connectedness of the below-ground community of ...

On behalf of the education committee of the Martha’ Diversity Coalition (MVDC), we are writing to thank you for the wonderful article about the Martha’ Living Legends Black, Indigenous, People of ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was and never will be.” Jefferson wrote this quote in a letter to Charles Yancey ...