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Peace Corps Talk
Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps. Since then over 200,000 Americans have entered the Peace Corps serving...
Name: Jakie Glasgow
Age: 6
School: First grade at the Chilmark School
Siblings: Noah, age 8
Pets: None
Something new you’re learning: How to read....
Poetry Reading
Two poetry teachers from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing are sharing their work tonight, July 19, at the West...
Harry Potter Party
For those who haven’t been able to score a ticket to the latest Harry Potter movie, or who have seen the movie eight times...
By SHIRLEY MAYHEW
I have lived in West Tisbury for almost 64 years — what is there not to love? I have lived in the house we built on the north...
EGREGIOUS ERROR
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Stunned! Heartbroken! Furious! These are but three of the emotions I was feeling after reading about...
BEARING DRIFT: A Story of Tragedy, Heroism and How Thirty-Four Sailors Rescued the U.S. Coast Guard. By Peter Sloan Eident. Pirate Press. 350 pages...
From a 1952 Gazette edition:
Since Thursday, when the Coast Guard building, three stories high, came towing into Menemsha Creek on a scow after...
Jamie O’Gorman stood in a field of summer squash and cucumbers at Morning Glory Farm in Edgartown on Saturday, looking over her shoulder, hoping...
With their town administrator’s resignation effective at the end of the month, Oak Bluffs selectmen met on Friday morning to discuss how to fill...
The first Tisbury art stroll got off to a quiet start on Friday night, but no matter, the tide in this port town is changing. Dawn Braasch, owner...
The tagline of the Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute, “from the front lines of politics, science and the arts,” proved too true last week when the...