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Vineyard Heroics
Decisive action by an Edgartown police officer likely saved the life of a toddler over the weekend.
Officer Dayce Moore...
Despite being a part of one of the most famous musical families in America, “Sister Kate” Taylor has had a career uniquely her own. After recording...
Motor vehicle accidents, noise complaints and the need for crowd control at several large events kept police in all six Island towns busy over the...
From a 1964 Gazette Column by Joseph Chase Allen:
There are inhabitants of the Island, especially of Vineyard Haven, who can recall a rather...
NO POSITION
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to Mark Forrest, chief of staff for Cong. Bill Delahunt:
I understand that...
Forks in a Rural Road
There are deepening divisions on Chappaquiddick over whether a bike path should be built on the tiny rural island that lies...
In the process of promoting Richard Russo’s new novel That Old Cape Magic, local booksellers Dawn Braasch (Bunch of Grapes) and Susan Mercier (...
Strolling the pastoral pathways of the Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury, you would never suspect that among the shimmering medley of goldenrod...
Don’t we all feel an extra measure of sympathy for that category of victims of Bernie Madoff’s vast fraudulent investment scheme, the ones whose...
Behind FEMA, there is LEMA. And behind the Local Emergency Management Agency for Oak Bluffs, there is Peter Martell who, on a recent afternoon, is...
The Chilmark Road Race is about much more than speed. How many contests pit septuagenarians against seven-year-olds? How often do you see Crocs on...
A Columbus, Ohio, man died on Friday afternoon after he was pulled from the ocean at Abel’s Hill Beach in Chilmark where he had been swimming with...