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After gathering on Sunday, July 9, to determine the future of Martha’s Vineyard Black Lives Matter (MVBLM), members of the local chapter are deciding to shake up how the group operates. MVBLM had been holding vigils to speak out against racism in Chilmark on a monthly basis. During the vigils, attendees would share stories of […]
Real Estate Confidential is a biweekly chit-chat about new listings, sales, or other insider information on the Martha’s Vineyard Real Estate market, presented by Fred Roven, owner/broker of Martha’s Vineyard Buyer Agents. It appears every other Friday in The Minute. I hadn’t checked in a few weeks, but we finally broke through the one hundred […]
I’m writing in response to Jack Fructman’s interesting assessment of a library’s legal obligation to book a speaker. He raises more questions than he answers. He seems to suggest that Alan Dershowitz has a constitutional right to be allowed to speak at a library-sponsored program. Does that mean any author or speaker with credentials has […]
Virginia Stone attacks the early pandemic with a keen eye for the changes it wrought in our everyday lives, with both compassion and humor. Her show, “COVID Up-Island,” at the West Tisbury library, looks through a local lens of the familiar at an experience that was far from it. Barred from her usual figure drawing […]
Russell Maloney and Marie Larsen are competing for one seat Chilmark select board seat. The position was held by longtime board member Warren Doty, who announced in January he will not seek re-election. The Times emailed the candidates a set of questions to ask their views on some issues the town faces and why they […]