coverage of 1991's Hurricane Bob. Like Henry Hough, Richard Reston was a strong editorial advocate against development and for environmental preservation, and is credited with many victories in those areas. These stances prompted five local business owners to start a competing newspaper, the Martha's Vineyard Times, in 1984. Mary Jo Reston retired in 1999, Richard Reston in 2003. Richard Reston was succeeded by John W. Walter, an editor of USAToday and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 2011, the newspaper was purchased by businessman Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. and his wife Nancy Kohlberg. They appointed Jane Seagrave, a former Associated Press executive, publisher in April 2011. References 1846 establishments in Massachusetts Newspapers published in Massachusetts Edgartown, Massachusetts Martha's Vineyard