I grew up in a small community in Illinois. After leaving I came to Martha’s Vineyard and proceeded to bounce around.
The following remarks were delivered during the suicide prevention walk Saturday at Bend in the Road Beach.
I have been attending meetings of the all-Island finance committee regarding the funding of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
The SSA has been encroaching on and abusing Woods Hole since 1960.
Barry D. Roy of Chilmark died on August 9.
I seem compelled every few years to write a love letter to the Gazette. Today, at home in Connecticut, I was reading the Sept. 13 issue.
Every year, the fourth Tuesday in September is National Voter Registration Day.
On Saturday Sept. 7, I went to the Edgartown Post Office as I do almost daily.
In June 2018 I witnessed a close call when a car almost struck a child crossing the street on his bike west bound on the Edgartown-West Tisbury road...
On August 23 our A Long Swim Team made the first attempt, ever, to swim from Nantucket to Martha’s Vineyard.
I have been a plumbing inspector on the Island for many years.
I want to thank Beth Kramer and the West Tisbury Free Public Library for having the courage to host Alan Dershowitz last week.

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