Commentary
What follows are an edited selection of e-mails sent to the Chilmark planning board from town property owners in advance of the board’s meeting...
Recently, many people have talked to me about the Oak Bluffs roundabout. These talks left me with the impression that many people do not fully...
BEWARE OF COMCAST
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
On Dec. 19, I received a phone call from Comcast offering to reduce the cost of my cable service,...
Editor's Note: Each year, editor Phyllis Meras creates a Christmas poem for the Vineyard.
As a child, the closest I ever came to Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup was through a slide of Andy Warhol’s iconic print in an art history class;...
We occupied Martha’s Vineyard, which wasn’t difficult as we already lived here. Unfortunately nobody thought of OMV until fall when the infamous one...
Juniper
juniperus communis
called jenever by the Dutch
green and young, female seed cone
a fleshy berry used in gin
another life when you...
The first itinerant preacher to travel as far as Chilmark was the Rev. Joshua Hall, in 1797. A small Methodist “class” was formed and continued to...
On Saturday night, Nina Violet celebrated the release of her new CD, We’ll Be Alright, at the Pit Stop on Duke’s County avenue in Oak Bluffs. Catty-...
Since I am in the holiday spirit (and, having just consumed a mug of hot toddy, a glass of eggnog and a nip of cheer, the holiday spirits are in me...
House Rules
No one gets it right all the time, including this newspaper. We heard from several readers who thought the Gazette editorial last week...
Seminars Revival
It was the Vineyard’s first and only institution of higher learning, founded by three retired Island academics in 1974. Their...
