Commentary
By SHIRLEY MAYHEW
I have lived in West Tisbury for almost 64 years — what is there not to love? I have lived in the house we built on the north...
EGREGIOUS ERROR
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Stunned! Heartbroken! Furious! These are but three of the emotions I was feeling after reading about...
From a 1952 Gazette edition:
Since Thursday, when the Coast Guard building, three stories high, came towing into Menemsha Creek on a scow after...
Editor’s Note: The following story was published in the Gazette on Jan. 18, 1985. William Bettencourt died on July 7 at the age of 87. A memorial...
Southern New England is overdue for a major hurricane. The last big one, in terms of lives lost, damage and cost, was the Great Hurricane of 1938....
Wind generation is irrelevant to energy independence: Making electricity doesn’t give us oil, asphalt, plastics or tires; only 1.1 per cent of...
Editor’s Note: What follows in an addendum to an the Editorial Page feature Why I Love Where I Live, published in the Tuesday Gazette.
For many years, I dragged my books around with me, from apartment to apartment and finally to our house. There are the novels of Hemingway and F....
BY THE BOOK
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I agree with the sentiments expressed in the Gazette by the owners of the Victorian Inn and more recently...
High Marks for School Superintendent
The Search Begins in Oak Bluffs
Who would want to be town administrator in Oak Bluffs, anyway?
The question has become more than rhetorical with...
Pieces of the Pie
From Gazette editions of July, 1886:
Almost the last act of the state senate was to advance its pay from $650 to $750, by a...
