From the April 11, 1930 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The name Manuel Silvia being a common one, the subject of this sketch is specifically...
After the solar eclipse on Monday, my social media feed was full of friends posting snark about how they had, once again, survived the rapture.
In Becoming Gandhi, author Perry Garfinkel seeks to emulate the famous Indian leader who for most of his life adopted a stark personal simplicity.
A few years ago, the Vineyard Conservation Society (VCS) tasked itself with adding to its traditional mission statement (roughly, “What does VCS do...
For nearly two years, my commute to work consisted of a short walk down Edgartown’s streets to the Vineyard Gazette office.
A great tree fell / the other day / opening up a / new patch of sky / in town.
As former summer chairs, former directors and former executive directors of the Chilmark Community Center (CCC), we are writing to express our strong...
It was disappointing that the ban on commercial gas-powered leaf blowers did not pass but encouraging that so many people voted in favor of it.
I support Article 87 — Large Events in Residential Neighborhoods — that is scheduled for vote at town meeting on April 9.
From the April 24, 1959 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
For the second consecutive season the anglers were blessed with favorable weather on the opening day of the trout season, which was Saturday. Island anglers were abroad in force, complaining only that the weather was a trifle on the raw side, what with a southeast wind breezing, but otherwise perfect. A temperature not too low, and moderately overcast skies, are appreciated by early trout fishermen.
