Opinion

From Fledgling to Fixture

On Sunday, the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School will holds its graduation ceremony for seven seniors..

3:11 pm, June 2, 2016
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Fields of June

The first cutting of hay is down on farm fields, another marker for the season at hand as the calendar flips from May to June.

2:59 pm, June 2, 2016
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Boys of Summer Become Boys of Winter

Arnie Reisman

In the film Bull Durham, sports groupie Annie Savoy says: “I believe in the Church of Baseball....I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see, there’s...

2:58 pm, June 2, 2016
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Releasing Hiroshima from a Textbook

Ivy Ashe

I started thinking about Hiroshima again last month, when John Kerry went to the city. But I usually think about Hiroshima this time of year anyway...

2:39 pm, June 2, 2016
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Where the Waste Goes, I Will Follow

Noli Taylor

Every year, 40 per cent of the food grown in this country is never eaten. The waste happens in farm fields, during processing and transportation, in...

2:38 pm, June 2, 2016
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History, Gazette Chronicle

Back to Brickman's

Brickman’s is a store that is well established, the name having been known in Vineyard Haven for thirty-three years.

2:31 pm, June 2, 2016
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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Better Bag Ban

Voters in Oak Bluffs have two versions of a plastic bag bylaw to consider at our town meeting on April 11.

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Letters to the Editor

Senior Center Money

Voters at the Tisbury annual town meeting on April 25, will be asked to vote on two warrant articles to appropriate and transfer from the building...

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Letters to the Editor

Moped Accountability

For years, I have had an ongoing fantasy. I dream of renting a moped on a hot summer day.

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Gazette Chronicle

Six More Weeks

From the February 5, 1943 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

Although Groundhog Day brought some slight variation in the weather program, the celebrated woodchuck experienced no difficulty in seeing his shadow, and this, if the ancient belief can be credited, winter is by no means over. Groundhog, or Candlemas, Day, is supposed to mark mid-winter, when the older people would check their winter stores to see if there remained,

“Half of the meant and half of they hay,” and watch the weather for the portents in which they believed. For, as they said: