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A week or so ago I was saying to friends, “Don’t rush me! It’s not spring, I haven’t finished (or begun) my winter chores yet, slow down, will you...
Vineyard Lobstering
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
From a 1935 Gazette edition:
Of all peculiarly earth-born traditions that still survive among men, perhaps there is none older than that of the...
Notables
National newspapers last week carried the obituaries of three notable civil servants: conservationist and former U.S. Secretary of the...
What’s in a Name?
It’s hard to imagine that a tragedy like the January suicide of a 15-year-old South Hadley girl, a result of torment by a group of teenage bullies...
If Tisbury voters approve the sale of beer and wine in the town’s restaurants at the upcoming town ballot, how many licensed premises will they be...
Skies were blue this week in Edgartown, where, despite an unusually high number of vacant storefronts, empty sidewalks and available parking places...
A sharply divided Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted last Thursday to hold another round of review for several proposed changes to the new YMCA...
Calling it a “complete break” with the past, Island Affordable Housing Fund executive director T. Ewell Hopkins this week revealed sweeping changes...
Among the little group which toured Martha’s Vineyard’s new hospital on Tuesday, Gladys Welch, recently retried after 59 years as a nurse in the...
Though most towns in Massachusetts officially close the bay scallop season at the end of next week, Edgartown shellfishermen can keep going in what...