Archive
Benjamin Kaplan, one of the commonwealth’s foremost jurists and a Vineyard seasonal resident, died last week at 99. Justice Kaplan was an eloquent...
PROFILE IN COURAGE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
President Obama can add another chapter to John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage; a man willing to...
FROM QUANSOO ROAD
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I was relieved to read that the Quansoo Beach Association membership took action to reconfigure its...
Tower Grants
The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation recently awarded $12,265 to Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools. One of the goals of the...
The Dukes County Deputy Sheriff’s all-star team had the lead for a short time, in the annual celebrity softball classic on Saturday afternoon in...
Correction
A photograph in Friday’s Gazette that accompanied a story about the forum organized by Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. incorrectly...
Fresh corn, tomatoes, potatoes, squash, greens and other veggies dot the farmers’ markets across the Island. Nothing compares to farm fresh eggs,...
David Flanders of Edgartown recently completed a 75-day course in Baja, Calif., with the National Outdoor Leadership School. Under the guidance of...
Richard North Patterson was honored with an alumni achievement award from Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Mr. Patterson, a 1968 graduate of Ohio...
Growing up on the Vineyard, I long ago came to terms with finding wildlife in my house.
Ticks, spiders, mosquitoes and moths in summer; mice (both...
After a brutal three years working at a job I can only describe as the equivalent of placing my hand in a meat grinder, I took the proverbial leap...
My wife and I spent the last week of July relaxing at the southwestern tip of Prince Edward Island. There’s not much there except a small harbor...