Pablo Neruda
I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled ‘get lost’, Questions that insisted in the sand.-Pablo Neruda
March 7, 2003
Students Protest Against War in Iraq
War with Iraq was the top subject in class and on the minds of regional high school students and teachers on Wednesday. Close to 600 students gathered in the school Performing Arts Center to express their opposition to the war.
Student Protest Against Iraq War Triggers Suspensions in Clash with Administration
Student Protest Against Iraq War Triggers Suspensions in Clash with Administration
A peaceful student protest against war in Iraq bubbled into a spontaneous walkout at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Oak Bluffs Police Receive Overtime Pay
Oak Bluffs Police Receive Overtime Pay
By CHRIS BURRELL
Oak Bluffs police officers are about to receive the kind of windfall most employees only dream of – getting paid for hours never worked.
Acting decisively on a grievance filed by the police union back in September 2001, an arbitrator…
Agony of War: Iraq Countdown Separates Young Vineyard Family
Seventeen hours before Jared Meader joined his comrades in Western Massachusetts, he sipped a whiskey sour, chatted with his buddies from the sheriff's department and helped his daughter, Hailey, grab a Cheeto just beyond the reach of her two-year-old arms. Seemingly mundane activities for a weeknight in the dead of winter, this Island native tried…
MVC Election Wins approval
MVC Election Wins Approval
State House Compromise Clears Path for Special Vote in May on a Petition in Oak Bluffs to Secede from Commission
By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer
After a week of back-room politics on Beacon Hill that left one Cape and Islands legislator openly fuming at…
Island Education Leaders Fear Budget Cut Layoffs
Island Education Leaders Fear Budget Cut Layoffs
By CHRIS BURRELL
Bracing for the possibility of even deeper cuts to state aid for schools, Island school leaders now say they must consider laying off teachers and trimming both academic and extra-curricular programs.
The dire forecast came this week in reaction…
State Budget Targets Childhood Programs
Five years ago, Kim Angell found herself one step away from being a welfare mom.
“My husband disappeared. I had no job, three children under the age of six, and it was January,” Ms. Angell said this week. “I had no money to pay my mortgage, let alone child care.”
