Public Health: Conversation and Opportunity

The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital’s new building project has seen four years of publicity, from a high-profile capital campaign to government approvals to actual construction to a gala opening last month.

May Days

Scorched Earth

From the wide, grassy sweep of Katama Plains to the rolling wooded hills of the north shore, the charred smell of smoke hung in the air throughout March and April this year in many of the Island’s outlying places.

Watersheds

Against a backdrop of national headlines over the massive and spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that appears to have no end, regional headlines over the city main break that left two million residents in the greater Boston area having to boil their drinking water, it was a weekend where water quality was very much in the news.

The Cape Wind Decision

Just like the wind that is a nearly constant presence on the Island — it rattled the windows of gray-shingled houses this week with cold spring gusts that felt more like early March than late April — the debate over Cape Wind has blown in and out of the Cape and Islands for nine years.

Bullies: A Community Problem