A hurricane hit the Island recently when FBI agents and men in paramilitary armor arrived on our Island, escorted by the US Coast Guard.

We were three French friends visiting Martha’s Vineyard for a week in June.

This Island is a finite piece of ground. Before you, in the aggregate, are proposals to add at least 500 bedrooms to the finite Island.

The recent news reports concerning the trial use of second-generation biodiesel for the June through August runs of the Island Home is a small but encouraging step for the Steamship Authority.

I was disheartened to learn of the several ICE arrests that have occurred recently on Martha’s Vineyard.

We, leaders in the Martha’s Vineyard faith community, are deeply disturbed by the actions taken yesterday by masked representatives of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and by other Federal agencies on the Vineyard.