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New Bedford Renews Push for Freight Service to the Vineyard

Peter Brannen

New Bedford civic leaders this week doubled down on their push to have the Steamship Authority begin summer freight service between their city and...

5:44 pm, April 19, 2012
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Commentary

An Institution Moves Across the Street

Elizabeth Bennett

The news that the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore would be moving hit me hard. Granted, it’s only to a space across the street. And I shouldn’t have been...

5:00 pm, April 19, 2012
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Commentary

As Nature Teaches, She Walks the Walk

Alison L. Mead

I grew up in a very small town in Connecticut. There was one babysitter, Mrs. Shepard, an older woman who lived on a farm, and many kids in town...

5:00 pm, April 19, 2012
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Despite Woes, This is No Great Depression

Gregory J. Wallance

The Obama campaign’s recently released online documentary, The Road We’ve Traveled, opens by evoking the plight of the economy when Obama took...

4:55 pm, April 19, 2012
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Editorials

Wampanoag Nation

Nearly ten years ago a small shed went up on the Cook Lands in Aquinnah fronting Menemsha Pond, property owned by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (...

4:45 pm, April 19, 2012
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In Vineyard Skies

Venus

The brightest planet in the sky tonight is Venus, high in the western sky. Venus is moving through the zodiacal constellation Taurus. It is a short...

4:45 pm, April 19, 2012
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Wahsashores Chronicle: Sometimes Paradise Requires a Septic System

From time to time, whenever inspiration aligns with respiration, I will be contributing a column to this paper. It will cover some aspect of moving...