Editorials
Dawn breaks over the eastern-facing treeline and the Island is wrapped in a blanket of quiet. Spring on Martha’s Vineyard has been a hard sell this...
The startling news last week that more than 1,000 people on Martha’s Vineyard were served in January alone by the Island Food Pantry is cause for...
An osprey stands on a pole by the water near East Chop. It is mid-February but warm and the osprey is comfortable, it seems, being early to the...
It is hard to reconcile the harsh rhetoric coming out of the White House about illegal immigrants with the largely hard-working and law-abiding...
It is hard not to admire the twenty one striking Vineyard Transit Authority drivers, who despite their small number have garnered much sympathy and...
Now that the three largest Island towns have defeated a plan to create an Islandwide housing bank designed to provide more housing for year-round...
A long overdue renovation of the regional high school got kicked further down the road this week by Oak Bluffs voters, who refused to fund a share of...
Sounds of spring on the Island: a low roar as a gust of wind sweeps through the woods, the chirping chorus of pinkletinks at dusk, the pop, pop, pop...
Farming is a personal pastime, the relationship between farmer, the land and the livestock is a sacred bond, and the image of a taciturn farmer...
After Sheriff Robert Ogden canceled an agreement with Dukes County last spring that cut off a source of funding from alarm fees, the county was faced...
Beginning this week the Gazette has finetuned its design, including changes in fonts, typography and makeup.