Commentary
The Vineyard Gazette can provide an enormous public service in helping to increase understanding and awareness by Island residents about the...
It is early winter in the year 1942. The United States has just been attacked by a foreign power and the annihilation of our Pacific fleet is...
Wise Use at the High School
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal Margaret (Peg) Regan is a stand-up person who was forced to make hard...
Death by Committee
The idea of forming a special commission on agriculture for the Vineyard is on the table for discussion, and while the concept...
Restoring Great Salt Pond
The draft Massachusetts Estuaries Project report on the Edgartown Great Pond obtained by the Gazette last week is...
If it weren’t for the war.
Fifty years ago this winter, in February, 1958, I began my journalistic career as editor of a fledgling monthly...
EXCELLENT SUMMARY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The story about the Edgartown Great Pond Estuaries Study was an excellent summary of a problem that...
A Linotype Man to the End
Jonathan Sawyer, whose unexpected death Nov. 21 was reported in last Friday’s Gazette, was for twenty years a mainstay...
50 Years Ago:
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of November, 1957:
Hi, I am the editor for this week’s Sophomores Speak Out. Students have chosen to write about a variety of topics this week about events happening...
T wo weeks ago a group of Vineyard farmers , selectmen, county commissioners and other Islanders interested in farming heard about the advantages...
Rarely does the genteel card game of bridge merit both a news story on the front page of the arts section and an editorial in The New York Times,...