Commentary
RED STOCKING TIME
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Jim Hickey’s interesting story last spring about baseball, starting with games on the Arctic ice by Vineyard whalers, and moving naturally along to...
One of the quintessential Vineyard vistas is the expanse of ocean visible from the Gay Head Cliffs, classified by the U.S. Department of the...
Accountable for Learning
So it’s preemptive strike time in the budget season. Every year Vineyard schools superintendent James H. Weiss has the...
Seeds Dangling High
From Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1959:
Change the Soundtrack
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
It’s easy to be cynical about love these days. Divorce rates seem always on the rise and tabloid fodder makes a public mockery of marriage and...
A fter the recent hearing and learning what others are doing and thinking regarding the state plan to locate at Noman’s Land (already designated by...
TO SEWER, OR NOT
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Regarding the selectmen’s rush to include the Island Grove sewer article on Edgartown’s Oct. 27...
My five-year-old son, Hardy, and I were kicking the soccer ball around the backyard and for the first time Hardy seemed engaged in the game rather...
Complications of Flu Clinics
Public health officials on the Island, as elsewhere, have been working feverishly in recent months to devise a plan...
Fun in the Sun
From an October, 1994 Just a Thought, by Art Railton:
At least a dozen times since Labor Day I’ve been asked, “Did you have a fun...
