From the Dec. 23, 1949 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Santa Claus arrived on the Vineyard on Tuesday afternoon by airplane.

From the Dec. 15, 1933 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

From the Dec. 6, 1946 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The cold wave predicted at various times by the weather bureau, at length arrived on Sunday night.

From the Nov. 30, 1979 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The north end of Tisbury’s Main street will change dramatically this winter, ending the era of the town five-and-ten-cent store when fistfuls of candy were bought for a penny and household trinkets were bagged for two-bits.

An important transfer of Edgartown real estate the past week is that of some 400 acres of land with building thereon located on or near Edgartown Great Pond.

From the Nov. 14, 1958 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: November half gone.

A vexed subject in Vineyard history came up last week with the difficulty in deciding whether a particular hillside in the East Chop region was a park, a mysteriously named “plaza,” or just ordinary private property.

From the Sept. 13, 1988 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
Eddie Gentle 3rd of Edgartown, a senior at the regional high school, leads the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby with a 15.57-pound bluefish he caught Saturday morning.

The crowd that assembled at the Oak Bluffs town bathing beach yesterday morning may have believed that pirate treasure had been uncovered.

The terrific north-easterly storm which swept the eastern Massachusetts coast on Tuesday was felt with unusual severity on the Vineyard.