Reports that the nine-person school committee plans to vote on Nov. 3 whether to circumvent spring 2026 town meetings in favor of an Islandwide simple majority vote to gain final approval of the planned high school renovation are deeply disturbing and revealing.

I am finishing my fifth season working here on Martha’s Vineyard.

On behalf of the Martha’s Vineyard Diversity Coalition Education Committee, we are writing to thank you for the wonderful article

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 organisms in a forest.