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The Great White Way, on Oak Bluffs avenue between Sea View and Lake avenues, was the heart of the summer resort’s entertainment area. Its evolution...
Ellen Chambers of the nonprofit group SPEDWatch will conduct a workshop titled Basic Rights: Denied on Monday, Sept. 29 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the...
Want to bring a little magic into the life of a child? Big Brothers Big Sisters needs people like you. Volunteer today to be a Big Brother or Big...
In his first State of the Union speech, Abra ham Lincoln declared that “the Union must be preserved.” One hundred and forty-seven years later, I ask...
I arose before dawn.
Raced to my favorite fishing spot.
The shore by the Vineyard Haven bridge.
I cast from 5 to 6 a.m.
No fish.
But I did see...
SACRED COW
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Reading about Bradley Square brings me back to fairly recent history on Martha’s Vineyard. Remember when...
Tending Their Flocks
From earlier Gazette editions:
It is recorded that when Major General Sir Charles Grey made his raid upon the Vineyard...
As a man who is so bad at games of chance that I was once beaten in blackjack by my dog, I never thought I would be a high roller at a casino. That...
Asters to Call Our Own
They come out just when the summer people go home, as if on cue for the Islanders who stop working so much and are out and...
Caught Speeding
Something to Celebrate
As well-resourced men and women from Washington and Wall Street jockeyed this week for a multi-billion-dollar bailout, a...
RICK HERRICK
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East Chop said goodbye to Ted Burnham on Saturday, Sept. 20, at a lovely party hosted by his...