A Weapon to Defend Island Waters The days slip by, one after another. First a hundred, then a thousand, then thousands more. The cesspool keeps...
Disappearing Ancient Ways On Thursday night the Martha’s Vineyard Commission will hold a public hearing on a proposal to include five ancient ways...
By Polly Woollcott Murphy. From the Vineyard Gazette editions of November 1976:
By BRAD WOODGER We’re all busy. More important, however, is that everybody else knows that we’re busy. Few street meetings or catch-up phone calls...
The Public Park that Never Happened For two decades, so-called Boch Park on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven has sat in a limbo made of court battles...
Being a seasonal Island resident, when I return to my other homeland I am often asked what do people on Martha’s Vineyard do in the winter? My...
A DISGRACE Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
ROYALTY RESOLUTION Editors; Vineyard Gazette: The following letter was sent to Sen. Robert O’Leary and Rep. Tim Madden from Martha’s Vineyard...
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY Editors, Vineyard Gazette: The Martha’s Vineyard Commission, along with the towns and other public entities, is very...
From the Nov. 14, 1958 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
November half gone. What a feeling that is for those who live in the country and see the decline of the year and the still-luminous quality of all outdoors during the shortening days. What happens in these weeks, as enchanted in their way as the almost forgotten paradise of summer, is more withdrawal than retreat.
