In August, Cable network HGTV revealed the Vineyard as its location for the 19th annual Dream Home giveaway and sweepstakes. The grand Cape Cod-style home in Katama was completed last month, and a drawing for the home will be held in May 2015.

I am lucky to have friends like Paul and Maggie Bangs who jumped at the chance to take my dad out last Sunday on Ralph Packer’s tug Sirius in honor of his 86th birthday.

For over 50 years I lived on the edge of Look’s Pond, off Music street in West Tisbury. In the mid 1660s only the Tiasquam River ran through the valley on its way to Tisbury Great Pond.

Neither the county commission nor the airport commission seem to understand their inter-relationship or their independence.

We were expecting over 100,000 demonstrators​. The last estimate is that 400,000 people joined the People’s Climate March on Sunday, Sept. 21, in New York city, and all because of our shared concern about climate change.

When I heard about the People’s Climate March in New York city, I just had to go. Now I am a grandmother. I needed to do this for my five grandkids.

We would like to commend Robert Skydell for his opinion piece in the Sept. 19 Gazette.

The Living Local Harvest Festival this year excludes a significant portion of the community, people who would want to be part of the activities.

I was stunned by the abject disregard by the Oak Bluffs water district and their superintendent Kevin Johnson regarding fluoride in the public water supply.

On Oct. 12, Le Grenier will close. Gone will be the exquisite French cuisine that many of us have enjoyed for decades.