January starts our year with cold contradictions. It is January that drives us indoors, and rewards us when we venture out with impressions as sharp and vivid as the very air.
Opinion
With President Obama soon to arrive on the Vineyard, it seems appropriate to look back at an earlier visit. For instance, I was surprised to read...
By SQUIRE RUSHNELL My wonderful wife, Louise DuArt, and I live in the Yellow Cottage of Edgartown, built in 1853. We love that our Island’s most...
From a Vineyard Gazette edition of 1931:
Less than three per cent of the earth’s water is fresh, the water that sustains us. As the oceans rise due to global warming salt water is creeping...
Woods Hole, 1910: idling steam trains exhale vapor at regular intervals, buoys clang out in the channel. An 11-year-old boy from Oak Park, Ill.,...
Save Our Farmland An acre a minute. That’s how much farmland is currently being lost to development and other causes in America, according to a...
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Letters to the Editor
I completely agree with the view Captain Contessa expresses in the Feb. 28 letter/commentary about stronger striper regulations needed.
A major consideration conspicuously absent from coverage of the proceedings at public hearings — that of the environmental impact and consideration...
My view, based on the information that I have had access to, is that the process of the Ahold-Stop & Shop proposal was compromised from the...