Mr. Keating Goes to Washington William Keating on Wednesday swore an oath to represent the people of the 10th Congressional District, including us...
Tale of Two Libraries The West Tisbury and Edgartown library building projects are textbook examples of the right and wrong way to do things.
Nature’s Everyday Strength High tides follow low, the full moon follows the new, the spring ever follows the bitter cold. Nature freely offers us...
Christmas 2010 A small gale lashed the Island early this week, bitterly cold and driven in from the ocean with steady light snow that frosted...
Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s Lesson With the dust still settling from the Edgartown special town meeting this week, the next task at hand is for...
On the Side of Angels Lights, please. Every year Linus van Pelt asks for a spotlight and steps right in to quote the gospel of Luke and remind...
Tuesday Vote in Edgartown Special town meetings in December are often lackluster affairs; most of the time a town considers itself lucky if a deep...
New Era for an Old Broadsheet Now begins a new chapter at the Vineyard Gazette, the newspaper of record for the Island since 1846 that was sold...
Property Value Reset Falling property values are the quiet news of the day on the Vineyard, where assessors in every town are preparing...
It was thirty-five years ago that I wrote my first editorial for the Vineyard Gazette, an editorial so important that today no one remembers the...
Roses in November Autumn on the Vineyard this year has been an up-and-down tale of weather, as if the Island had been gripped by some...
The County Conundrum Does county government have a useful function anymore? Throughout the commonwealth the county form of government has...

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