Dylan Thomas
The birds of the winged trees flying my name Above the farms and the white horses I rose in rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. – Dylan Thomas
May 5, 2006
High School Prom Enacts Strict Rules to Keep Kids Safe
For the first time, this year the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School junior prom will require not just a ticket to enter, but a green light from a breathalyzer.
After alcohol use caused problems at last year’s prom, high school principal Margaret (Peg) Regan considered cancelling this year’s prom and revisiting the issue…
Hospital Begins Formal Review
Hospital Begins Formal Review
Plans for $42 Million New Facility Set to Be Filed in Oak Bluffs; MVC Land Use Committee Will Discuss on Monday
By JULIA WELLS
The Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital, much in the news this year with its ambitious $42 million capital campaign, is now set…
Fourth Annual Energy Day Held Tomorrow at Grange
Fourth Annual Energy Day Held Tomorrow at Grange
By IAN FEIN
Should the Vineyard tax large energy users as a way to fund more renewable energy projects?
That question will be a topic of discussion at the fourth annual Energy Day tomorrow, when the building inspector from Aspen, Colo.,…
Braziian Community on the Vineyard Participates in National Day of Protest
Engraved on the pedestal of the Statute of Liberty is a poem by Emma Lazarus with the famous lines "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door." The…
SUCCESS STORY: Public Charter School Is Matchmaker for Learners
It is the kind of sunny spring day that lures young minds out through classroom windows onto the playground, but the seventh and eighth graders in Jonah Maidoff’s social studies class at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School are decidedly focused on the issue at hand.
Last Vineyard Town Meeting Convenes Tuesday in Aquinnah
Last Vineyard Town Meeting Convenes Tuesday in Aquinnah
By JAMES KINSELLA Gazette Senior Writer
A slew of proposed Proposition 2 1/2 overrides and a couple of requests to partly restructure town government are among the decisions awaiting Aquinnah voters at their annual town meeting and town election next week.
