Dylan Thomas
The birds of the winged trees flying my name Above the farms and the white horses I rose in rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. – Dylan Thomas
December 20, 2002
Wampanoag Tribe Sees Fresh Chance to Press for Gambling Casino
For the first time since the mid-nineties, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is looking at favorable odds in its bid to build a high-end casino in southeastern Massachusetts.
SSA Board Settles Bothersome Issue of Cost Allocation
SSA Board Settles Bothersome Issue Of Cost Allocation
By JULIA WELLS
At a meeting marked by general good humor and a series of brisk business decisions, Steamship Authority governors voted without dissent yesterday to adopt a modified cost allocation policy that puts to bed an internal accounting issue that has been…
Housing Opens New Life for Two Families
Housing Opens New Life for Two Families
By MANDY LOCKE
The phone call came at just the right moment for one Island family.
The couple – we’ll call them Joe and Sarah – was being driven out of yet another rental, this time because of the owner’s decision to put…
Flash Comes Home for the Holidays
It was a blustery mid-October evening when Pond View Farm staff member Mauricio Brandao found the little school pony standing in the corner of the field. Flash, the sweet-natured, 18-year-old, chestnut gelding – everybody's favorite – was refusing to come in for his nightly feeding, refusing to move at all or bear any weight on…
Christmas Offers Hope in a World Full of Troubles
Charitable Giving Declines on Island
Vineyard Institutions Worry the Squeeze Will Eliminate Services in Competitive Market for Needed Contributions
By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer
It’s known as the giving season, but as holiday lights glow along darkened main streets and the clock winds down on 2002, an array…
Charitable Giving Declines on Island
Charitable Giving Declines on Island
Vineyard Institutions Worry the Squeeze Will Eliminate Services in Competitive Market for Needed Contributions
By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer
It’s known as the giving season, but as holiday lights glow along darkened main streets and the clock winds down on 2002, an array…
Airport Commission Votes Plan, Allowing for Possibility of a Jail
After first voting unanimously to leave the door open for the possibility of a jail on airport land, the airport commissioners this week approved the master plan.
A few of the dozen people in attendance at Wednesday night’s meeting had wanted more. They argued that the airport commission owed the public more than…
