Meetings of the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission are turning into a spectacle that might be comical but for the fact that they involve a commission charged with oversight of the Island’s only commercial airport.

What begins as a small circular bond between parents and child quickly becomes a communal enterprise of fellow parents, teachers, coaches and the community at large.

This amazing middle of the night heroic effort is a tale of hope and kindness.

He looks up into the heavens and says in a voice filled with wonder, do you realize that neutrinos can pass through the earth and never touch anything. His voice a whisper. The man is truly in awe.

I like to wake up by walking somewhere each morning in any season. I have favorite walks. In West Tisbury, one takes me through the woods past Glimmerglass Pond, another across a Whiting field.

The story has it that 40 years ago this spring, Massachusetts state Sen. William (Billy) Bulger was on Nantucket and decided to go for a dip in the deep blue sea.

A development project that will prove highly disruptive, and dangerous, to traffic flows in and around the Edgartown Triangle is moving forward with little notice and even less outrage.

It was 70 years ago, on June 6, 1944, that Allied ships landed in Normandy in the D-Day invasion. Church bells tolled across the Island that day.

The board, the staff and the greater Seven Gates Farm community would like to express our deep shock and profound sadness at the unexpected passing of Pat Gregory.

I just arrived for the summer and grabbed the latest Gazette. What a pleasure it was to read Katie Carroll’s article, “Making the World the Classroom.”