Commentary
I come from a family where everyone assumes a role in the kitchen. My brother mans the grill, you can usually find me elbow deep in sugar and...
When Vineyard Gazette editor Julia Wells hired me as a reporter in the fall of 2006, she took a big risk. Then again, at such a little paper, most...
HASTY DECISION
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The Edgartown selectmen chose to include the question of the town’s membership in the Martha’s Vineyard...
New Era for an Old Broadsheet
Now begins a new chapter at the Vineyard Gazette, the newspaper of record for the Island since 1846 that was sold...
Property Value Reset
Falling property values are the quiet news of the day on the Vineyard, where assessors in every town are preparing...
Idyll Chatter
From Gazette editions of December, 1935:
The Pilgrims survived!
For this they praised the Lord
And thanked their Indian friends
Who taught them how to live
In this different land....
Often lost in the debate about the pros and cons of developing new sources of energy production is the critical importance of conserving our...
Our hot tub broke down last Monday, making it no longer hot. On Wednesday, my grandfather’s clock jammed; it takes six months to clean and repair....
THE TAX MAN
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The front page article in Friday’s paper titled “Tisbury’s Taxes Sharply Higher” may have given the casual...
It was thirty-five years ago that I wrote my first editorial for the Vineyard Gazette, an editorial so important that today no one remembers the...
At the Table
From Bill Caldwell’s 1983 “The Day After:”
Please pass the bicarb. That second round of pie a la mode was a mistake. Indeed the...
