Commentary
An open letter to Sens. John Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy:
As a journalist, voter, part-time Vineyarder and full-time Democrat, I’m writing to...
Hello to all our readers. We have just finished an exhausting week of midterm exams and this week we share with you some of our issues and...
Primary Colors
On Tuesday voters in Dukes County will go to the polls to cast ballots in the race for the Presidential nomination which has so...
In recent years, the faces of foreign workers on H2B visas have become a familiar part of the Vineyard’s seasonal employment mix. Indeed, their...
First Snowfall
It was and it wasn’t. The first snow, that is.
There was some in December, of course, and a little more in January. But it came...
The Island has lost another wonderful treasure.
Peter Williamson, the former chief of police in Oak Bluffs who died Jan. 23 left a legacy that...
FOR THE CHIEF
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I write to thank the residents of the Vineyard for the kindness extended toward the Williamson family...
25 Years Ago
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of February, 1983:
It has been a long time since I have lived on the Vineyard, so forgive me for asking, but when did the term New Yorker become derogatory? What does...
All in the Family
By William A. Caldwell, Pulitzer prize winner, long-time Vineyard Gazette columnist etc. From the Vineyard Gazette editions of...
The new tax bills for Tisbury Great Pond properties were a shocker all right. The camp that I co-own with my three siblings, as the Sturgis Family...
I turned 21 in 1968, the first year I had the chance to vote. With an anti-Roosevelt Republican father and a liberal leaning Democratic mother, I...