The other day, in Edgartown, I found I had some time to spare — and a parking space. Let me put that another way: I had found a parking space so I...
LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE Editors, Vineyard Gazette: The front-page August 30 story about the Edgartown Library describes additional library woes and...
Labor Day 2011 Summer comes to an end on Monday — although not strictly by the calendar. The official close of summer, the autumnal equinox, is...
The following is an open letter to Brian Roberts, chief executive officer of Comcast: Dear Mr. Roberts: As the chief executive of a large...
Merchants, Be Kind Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
From a Visitor’s Diary in 1872: The diary of a visitor to Oak Bluffs in 1872 gives not only a record of what summer visitors sought and found but...
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By Nicole Galland> We recently moved into a place of almost inexpressible beauty. There are many such on Martha’s Vineyard. I appreciate that...
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The Vineyard will be a very different place in 100 years, notes Island naturalist Gus Ben David. The changes in his lifetime have been “phenomenal...
Back in the middle of the last decade, a round about was proposed for the Island’s key blinker intersection, where Barnes Road crosses the Edgartown...
Nina Tarnawsky skillet
The crowd looked frighteningly large. I had butterflies in my stomach and my palms were sticky as I searched for my mother in the stands. My...
NO PREFERENCE Editors, Vineyard Gazette: I have to question the math and management of the Steamship Authority’s Islander Preferred reservations...
Cliff Hangers From Gazette editions of August, 1986:

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