Commentary
Controversy, primarily around land use and land development issues, has been a defining trait of the Vineyard community in recent years. So it is...
What follows is a collection of reader feedbacks from the Gazette Web site.
Traffic Mishap Kills Vineyard Haven Woman, published Feb. 1:
This...
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:
As a teacher of history I studied many presidencies.
I have recently been the recipient of one of those fantastical e-mail chain letters being broadly circulated these days titled Who Is Barack Obama...
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...