Commentary
TOWERING TURBINES
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
My partner, Jay, and I purchased a home on the Vineyard nearly six years ago. I don’t think we’ll...
Affordable Housing Report Card
Affordable housing continues to be a pressing issue on the Island, and the past few weeks have seen developments on...
It is a cold January morning and inside the Massachusetts State Lobster Hatchery on Lagoon Pond in Oak Bluffs, all is quiet. It has been 14 years...
For the Love of Gold
From Gazette editions of 1850:
From letters received in town from a member of the “Vineyard Mining Company,” who proceeded...
Forty seven years ago in August 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King made the I Have a Dream speech, a speech which I now know was heard all over the world...
Nightclub Versus Liquor Store
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
In the mid-1980s, after EduComp moved into its big brick building at the head of Main street, Vineyard Haven, I was a frequent visitor, either...
MOVING ON
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The election is now over. Thankfully, the ridiculous television commercials will no longer play on every...
Two Islands, One World
Here on this Island so often derided as home to the elite, many residents have long devoted energy and charity to help the...
Devil’s Den
From a 1933 Gazette edition:
Many Vineyarders and many Island visitors have heard the name the Devil’s Den. And there are many...
Editor’s Note: Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, elected on a platform of change, on Jan. 20, 2009. He took the oath...
Editor’s Note: Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, elected on a platform of change, on Jan. 20, 2009. He took the oath...
