Charles Sennott
HarborWorks and sailing into the future
The view from the publisher’s office of The Martha’s Vineyard Times looks out over the weathered, gray-shingled boatyard of the world-renowned Gannon & Benjamin...
‘A Timely Issue’
The front page of the newspaper has yellowed into a sepia tone in the frame that hangs in my office overlooking Vineyard Haven Harbor,...
A moment of awe; a time for transformation
The moon moved slowly between the sun and earth, obscuring the light of the sun. The sky dimmed, and the temperature dropped. A strange...
The ‘first rough draft’ covering Island schools
In the bright, unforgiving light of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School cafeteria, a cluster of a dozen parents — all immigrants from Brazil...
A step across a cultural divide
From the street, you could hear the muffled beat of Brazilian house music up in The Loft on Oak Bluffs Avenue.
It was my first...
A sign of the times?
First came the high winds. They blew hard against the “MV Times” sign above the entry to our newsroom, leaving it hanging by one...
Finding Leo
Finding Leo, a small Bali terrier mix who went missing for two weeks through frigid cold and the rising peril of coyotes, was an...