From the Dec. 23, 1949 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Santa Claus arrived on the Vineyard on Tuesday afternoon by airplane.
Opinion
Take This Poem Take this poem. No. Really take it. It belongs to you. Like anything you read. It belongs. Like Hawaii’s swaying palms,...
Spring Fever From Gazette editions of April, 1959:
Here’s what I love most about my town: its edges. In three directions, Vineyard Haven ends abruptly, as a town should, surrendering, gracefully and...
The Most Valuable Things World and national affairs have moved a little closer to the Island these days. The state of the country is affecting...
As spring approaches, students become stressed and anxious about MCAS tests. We are told “you’ll do fine” and “just do your best” by our teachers...
Oct. 23, 2003
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Letters to the Editor
In Mending Wall, the poet Robert Frost wrote that “something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” I thought of this poem after reading “Super-sized...
I congratulate the Gazette on its coverage in your July 27 issue of the large house issue and of the related zoning board of appeals hearing in...
What did you think when you heard President Obama say, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Did this...