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Nightclub Versus Liquor Store
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
In the mid-1980s, after EduComp moved into its big brick building at the head of Main street, Vineyard Haven, I was a frequent visitor, either...
MOVING ON
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The election is now over. Thankfully, the ridiculous television commercials will no longer play on every...
Two Islands, One World
Here on this Island so often derided as home to the elite, many residents have long devoted energy and charity to help the...
Despite the claimed end of the recession, the number of foreclosure proceedings on the Vineyard appears to be increasing, along with unemployment...
A large group of Island planning and conservation officials gathered last week to debate what is expected to be a central dilemma in the months and...
Vineyard voters stood decisively for Democratic candidate and state attorney general Martha Coakley in Tuesday’s special election, but it was...
The Cape Cod Canal was still an idea. And it would be years before the advent of navigational tools that are taken for granted today such as radar...
A smiling sandy-haired toddler hung from his mother’s hip as he dipped his hand into a colorfully decorated box to pull out a hot pink card. “This...
Don’t make striped bass a game fish. That was the message delivered last week by a group of Vineyard commercial bass fishermen who traveled to the...
Please Adopt Us
The cat population at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard is down to one: Pearl, our elderly white cat who has become the...
Devil’s Den
From a 1933 Gazette edition:
Many Vineyarders and many Island visitors have heard the name the Devil’s Den. And there are many...