Mature Workers Sought

The Mature Workers Program of Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands Inc. has openings in its Bridge Back to Work program for income-eligible people 55 and older. The program offers paid work experience and training opportunities. More information is available by calling 508-394-4630 or 1-888-394-4630, extension 135 or 134.

Improving County Government

In the end, after a laborious and sometimes painful process, the Dukes County Charter Study Commission has recommended relatively little change in county government.

The commission’s conclusions match the gut feeling that many Island residents held at the start of the study: that the failings of the existing county government have owed far more to the members of that government than to its structure.

Commencement Day 2008

This morning the Vineyard Gazette salutes the graduating seniors at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School. High school commencement ceremonies begin at one o’clock on Sunday at the historic Tabernacle in the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs; the charter school graduation is tomorrow afternoon at one thirty at the school campus in West Tisbury.

Sweet Inspiration

The fragrances of spring are everywhere in the air, luring even the most sedentary out of doors. Dooryard lilacs — deep purple, lavender and white — are just gone by and fragrant wisteria is brightening many Vineyard gardens.

Even though I partied so much in college that I graduated magna cum lager, I went to class often enough that I still have a dream that is common among people who subconsciously recall the old alma mater. It starts with a beautiful co-ed in a filmy negligee — oops, sorry, wrong dream!

Fire!

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of June, 1958:

THE REAL PROBLEM

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Teaching is a strange business! It’s a little like gardening in that you plant seeds and hope that they grow and that you will recognize the plant that appears. It’s fair to say that learning will always happen, but that we teachers have little or no control over what is learned.

Greetings to all our readers. This is our last Sophomores Speak Out. Next year we will be moving up and won’t be eligible to write as sophomores. We’ve really enjoyed writing for you, and hope that you find our choice of topics interesting this week. We have a wide range for our last page. Everyone wrote about what they cared about, so enjoy and have a great summer.

Here Comes Summer

By Hannah Marlin>

The chorus was catchy, the kind that easily got stuck in your head: “When the sparks turn to flames, it’s time to play the blame game.”

The beat was almost inspirational, symphonic samples over a kick and a snare.

“Yo, who’s them four MCs with the same name?” rapped Robert (Bubba) Brown, Matt Lucier and Andrew Larsen, all seniors at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, together with their friend Henry Peacor from Colorado College.