Commentary

Plastics Are But One Piece of The Ocean Pollution Puzzle

Chris Reddy

Coastal communities, including those on the Vineyard, are struggling with plastics on the beach. Animals are killed, which is visually unpleasant...

2:41 pm, August 16, 2012
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Gabby Douglas’s Olympic Success Signals Some Progress

Bettye Foster Baker

Sacrifices are not in vain, they pay off in the end.” This was one of the poignant remarks of Gabriel (Gabby) Douglas, who this year became the...

2:40 pm, August 16, 2012
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Sand in My Shoes: Down to the Sea in Shifts, Quite Happily

Holly Nadler

It all started when I ran into Inner Vision Ocean Swimming instructor and visionary Bob MacLean, in Reliable Market. Bob’s got just about the best...

2:39 pm, August 16, 2012
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A Foot Soldier in the War on Women

Jim Kaplan

Years ago I was standing in the Red Sox clubhouse speaking with Bruce Hurst, the nicest guy I ever met in baseball and a Mormon. We moved from topic...

3:00 pm, August 13, 2012
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In Polly’s Garden: A Grass for Every Purpose on Vineyard

Tim Boland

Plants in the grass family (Poaceae) dominate the planet by the breadth of their global coverage. They play a critical role in preventing erosion,...

3:00 pm, August 13, 2012
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Vineyard Notebook

Lucy Patterson Cox

Looming thunderstorms and ominous skies did not detract from the excitement at the Boch family estate in Katama on a recent Thursday night. A core...

3:00 pm, August 13, 2012
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Recent Surge in Shark Sightings Belies Their Dramatic Declines

Simon Thorrold

The July 30 shark attack at Ballston Beach in Truro has focused national attention on the seasonal occurrence of white sharks in waters close to...

2:15 pm, August 9, 2012
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Island Health Care Issue is Two-Tiered

Dr. Donald Berwick

Just like the rest of America, health care on Martha’s Vineyard is in trouble — too often fragmented, unsafe, variable, hard to access and far too...

2:15 pm, August 9, 2012
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Washashore Chronicle: When Nature Calls Be Sure to Answer

"Nature abhors a vacuum." Aristotle said that or something like that in the original ancient Greek, observing that nature requires every space to be...

2:15 pm, August 9, 2012
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Building a Better Big House Debate

David Handlin

My architecture firm has designed about a dozen houses on Martha’s Vineyard in addition to the Middle Line affordable housing project in Chilmark....

2:15 pm, August 9, 2012
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In Polly's Garden: White Oaks, Noble Among the Breed

Tim Boland

I noticed the oaks right away. My first visit to the Vineyard was in spring 2002 when the abundant oak trees were raining down yellow pollen. Later...