Editorials
MCAS Scores: What Lies Beneath
Examining the results of the annual statewide standardized school exams can be like being a kid again and looking...
Business Boosters
Many remember the bike race that used to anchor the annual Tivoli Day weekend in Oak Bluffs; it was a kind of must-do autumn...
Blinders Off at the Blinker
The proposal to replace the blinker intersection in Oak Bluffs with a roundabout, under discussion now for a full...
Gone Fishing
Back to School Basics
One girl was buying more pencil sharpeners than she could hold in one hand at EduComp on Wednesday, the day before school....
Debrief on Irene
It is tempting after the frenzied run-up to last weekend’s weather to pass quick judgment on Irene, who appeared on the Vineyard...
Labor Day 2011
Summer comes to an end on Monday — although not strictly by the calendar. The official close of summer, the autumnal equinox, is...
Hurricane Watch
Will Irene, lumbering up the coast earlier this week, lose her gumption and shrink from landfall as Earl did last Labor day...
Summer White House 2011
Marine One touched down at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport yesterday afternoon just before six o’clock as the sun began to...
I have mixed feelings about going to the Agricultural Fair. This has nothing to do with the fair itself, which at 150-years-old has aged...
Editor’s Note: The following story was published in the Gazette in August 1961 on the occasion of the fair centennial.
BY JOSEPH CHASE ALLEN
Every time I see President Obama autographing a piece of legislation in the Oval Office, I’m in awe of how neat his desk looks. I mean, here’s the...