As promised, The MV Times is bringing back the online comment section, after a respite over the holidays and a review of our policies for posting online. As we have stated in the past, the dialogue had descended into a place we felt was not healthy — similar to the vitriol we’ve seen across social media and on national news — and it was time to reflect and try to rein it in. We believe that community media provides an important place to exchange ideas on the challenges we face, and we know…
The window of a shop on Main Street in Vineyard Haven looks out on an Island community going about its business. But to a Brazilian immigrant who works there, the view is of a world suddenly filled with uncertainty and peril. This mother of a 12-year-old daughter scans the streets apprehensively, saying, “What if next time I look on the street, I see immigration agents coming through that door?” The woman said her husband and their daughter are undocumented and she fears being targeted by…
Island residents Carlos Montoya and Sheenagh Caridi are teaming up to purchase Little House Café in Vineyard Haven to open a new restaurant and shop in March. While Montoya and Caridi plan to maintain the same comforting café environment, the eatery is set to be renamed “The Maker Pasta Shop Café.” They also plan to create a retail pasta shop where customers can purchase pasta by the pound, pasta kits, ready to eat meals, in addition to offering a full dining experience. Montoya, the maker…
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To the Editor: It is sad to see all the misguided activity to limit short-term rentals on Martha’s Vineyard. The fact is there exists one and only one reason to limit short-term rentals, and that is the fallacious belief that this will provide relief to our affordable housing crisis. This is simply untrue, and limiting short-term rentals will have no effect whatsoever on generating any affordable housing. In fact, it probably will have the reverse effect, by limiting accommodation availability…
Dear Dogcharmer readers, Some thoughts about responsibility: In the Bible’s Book of Genesis, God gave us dominion over all living things. In the U.S., we kill more than 600,000 dogs a year in shelters. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world”: That’s a quote from John Muir that I never forgot. I just read that neuroscientists made tiny cars out of cereal containers, and taught rats to drive them to get treats. The cars could go 1.1 mph, and…
To the Editor: Over the winter break, Oak Bluffs businesses collaborated with the Children’s Room at the Oak Bluffs Public Library (OBPL) to entertain the youngest town children. Businesses hung pictures from some of the most well-known picture books, including work from Dr. Seuss, Paddington, and Clifford. Children walked up and down Circuit Ave. hunting for these characters. The staff at the OBPL Children’s Room would like to thank the businesses for their enthusiastic participation: Basics,…
If there are still any doubters, the apocalyptic images coming out of Los Angeles should be the proof everyone needs that climate change is not only real, it is an existential threat to our way of life. National news night after night this past week has shown haunting images of fire destroying more than 10,000 homes, businesses, and schools. Residents of America’s second largest city are traumatized, many rethinking where they will call home. Aside from tragic, it is unnerving. If the fires were…
To the Editor: Mopeds ARE dangerous, and have been since the 1980s, when Sam Feldman and Chilmark Police Chief Tim Rich began the safety crusade against rental mopeds here on the Vineyard. The newspapers have followed the twists and turns of the moped saga, reported on the meetings, the bylaw changes, the closing of a few of the moped companies, the island-wide town votes to stop moped rentals, and the inaction at the State House, and have published myriad “Letters to the Editor” over decades.…
To the Editor: I’m writing in response to the Jan. 27 MV Times article, “Barnstable misses first ferry run to Nantucket.” I’m not writing to comment on the fact that this freight boat cost the SSA $4.7 million more than budgeted, or took more than two years to overhaul. I’m not writing about the fanfare at the Barnstable’s commissioning ceremony in Hyannis, just last month. Projects going over-budget are a regular occurrence for the SSA these days. That is part of the reason why public…
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