Well-intentioned though it is, the proposal to remove ten Norway maples between the new West Tisbury Library and the Field Gallery has predictably...

It’s a staple of local conventional wisdom that one of the reasons famous people love our Island is that we encounter them with a nonchalance that...

mil pond

The Mill Pond and its upstream cousins: Mill, Priester, Crocker, Fisher (also known as Woods), plus two or more smaller ponds, each with dams, are...

ana nascimento

Three years ago in my sophomore history class, a young woman sat in the corner, deliberately placing herself outside the circle of activity in the...

From the October 21, 1994 Just a Thought column by Arthur Railton: At least a dozen times since Labor Day I’ve been asked, “Did you have a fun summer...

tom hale

No one ever walked away from a conversation with Tom Hale and said: “I wonder what he wanted to tell me”? Tom embraced life in all its complexity,...

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In the past three years the residents of Chappaquiddick have worked with Pam Dolby and the Edgartown selectmen to bring Comcast to Chappy. We are now...

Can someone explain to me why Oak Bluffs does not recycle cereal boxes, orange juice cartons, etc.? They are recyclable. Also, if recycling is...

I couldn’t agree more about the lack of planning which resulted in the insensitive scheduling of a community event which excluded a small but...

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