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Early summer arrived like a small lurch on the Vineyard this year, as if someone had hit the gas pedal a little too hard. Clear June days with warm...
I am told that multiflora roses are invasive and that it was all a mistake when the first of them were planted in the 1950s or 1960s to border up-...
Near the end of the school year my son had a field trip to the Boston Museum of Science. As I drove him to the ferry I put on some traveling music,...
With the Pilgrim nuclear power plant now operating on an extended license and three of the same vintage and design General Electric reactors at...
It saddens me that, once again, I feel the need to display signs on my lawn, house, car, and clothing that say “Don’t Bomb Iraq.”
President Obama,...
The Fourth of July is a tale in which we learned it is not unpatriotic to question authority, hence our independence of the king. There are other...
Retire Pilgrim
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
With the Pilgrim nuclear power plant now operating on an extended license and three of the same vintage and...
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of July 6, 1934:
The night before the Fourth in Edgartown was described as the quietest in years. Last year’s night...
The driver of a moped was killed Wednesday afternoon in an accident on State Road involving a moped and a truck. The accident took place two days...
Having lived for 35 years downwind of the Indian Point (IP) nuclear station on the shores of the Hudson River in New York, and teaching physical...
Watch Nelson and Jeff Bryant fishing on the North Shore of the Vineyard.
Sawyer Klebs, 18, of West Tisbury, recently completed a semester-long wilderness expedition in the Rocky Mountains with the National Outdoor...