Martha’s Vineyard Times publisher Charles M. Sennott received a James F. Foley Foundation World Press Freedom Award on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., for his work in founding the GroundTruth Project. GroundTruth, along with its programs Report for America and Report for the World, recruits and supports journalists to cover under-reported communities and issues. Report for […]
Vineyard Haven residents Peter and Barbara Oberfest didn’t come into ownership of The Martha’s Vineyard Times with a background in newspapers. The two were looking to move to the Vineyard full-time from Philadelphia. But in the mid-1990s, the Oberfests became the publishers of the paper anyway, and for nearly three decades, they shepherded it through […]
You’ll read elsewhere in our pages and online this morning that by the first of the year The Times will have been sold to Steve Bernier of West Tisbury. This is astoundingly good news for all Islanders, good news because it means that The Times, a community newspaper through and through, will remain in community […]
“Martha’s Vineyard v. DeSantis” is a must-see film about the debacle a year ago and the excellent way our community and those outside of it helped us rally around the 49 Venezuelan migrants whom Florida Governor Ron DeSantis illegally sent from Texas to our shores in a stunt that fueled a political and […]