A beautiful memorial celebration was held by Mimi Teixeira Robinson for her late husband Julian and her dear sister Carolyn Teixeira at Farm Neck on August 5.

We all know about the creative genius of witty Julian with his in-depth talent and knowledge of photography, birding and poetry.

This Friday, August 17, is the last day to register to vote in the primary election on Thursday Sept. 6. If you know someone young, old or uninvolved, who is unregistered, now is the time to urge them to complete a voter registration form.

The League of Women Voters of Martha’s Vineyard wants to insure that citizens are current with their voter registration for the upcoming election season — including any change in name or address, or registering for the first time.

On behalf of the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council, I want to extend my gratitude to Alison Mead and the Vineyard Gazette for their coverage of our annual gathering in remembrance of the atomic bomb attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs were dropped 67 years ago and every August 6 since then has

We would like to take an opportunity to publicly thank the two Edgartown police officers who kindly procured a taxi for us last Saturday evening (the last night of our wonderful Vineyard vacation!) after an Adam Cab refused to take us home. The officers were helping to control the many cars and people congregating near the Atlantic Club and Dock street taxi stand.

With all due respect for the journalist who covered the selectmen and taxpayer meeting in Aquinnah, her intentions were right but her quote for my intervention was not correct.

Although I’m not complaining about the food or service, I was quite amazed and appalled to be charged a 15 per cent gratuity on a take-out order at Jimmy Seas. I couldn’t figure out what “service” I was tipping for. Was it the careful arrangement in the stryrofoam container, the plastic wrapping job or maybe the smiles as they dug deeper into my wallet because they could. Just one more “first” for me, as in first time for everything.

I am a member of the board of directors of Vineyard House, which is the only residential support facility for Islanders in early recovery from substance abuse.

I am also an active volunteer on our resident support committee. As such, I meet every other week with eight other volunteers to help support the house managers who oversee our program.

The line-up of characters: Dion Clarke, president of Harlem Fine Arts Show and chief dumbo who has no understanding of advanced events planning nor with taking precautions to safeguard valuable artwork; Kathy Burton, board selectman chairman of wherever, who didn’t think too clearly if things are legal or not (see July 13 Vineyard Gazette); various Harthaven residents with a mentality of, well, clams, who spoke against allowing a permit of a big tent for only four

I recently enjoyed the article in the August 10 Gazette, “Health Care Checkup: Access to Primary Care Improving.” I am glad to hear that the hospital staff, Vineyard Medical Services and Island Health Care are all taking or have a waiting list for new patients. Unfortunately, I was saddened and disappointed that