The current Gay Head Lighthouse has been standing sentinel on the clay cliffs of Aquinnah since 1856. It is now in danger and it desperately needs the entire Island community to help save it.

This spring the annual town meeting warrants in each of the six Vineyard towns will include articles asking the voters to adopt board of health regulations governing the use of fertilizer on turf.

LAX creates somniacs or worse.
Promised wifi is a lie. We lay
to wait connection, a continuation home.

My husband and I left the Vineyard for a monthlong stay off the Gulf coast at the end of February. It is almost April and I am astonished by headlines and emails about the Vineyard’s weather.

Will you permit me to call the attention of our townspeople to a sample proposition looking to the improvement of our village and which seems to me very feasible.

Once in awhile in life everything seems to be going fine and a minute later your whole world has fallen in. This happened to me this week while I was watching a sweetheart of a dog named Pepe.

Thanks to the late Dorothy Bangs for her decades of enthusiasm, organization and efforts towards raising money through Daffodil Days to help ease the pain of a cancer diagnosis.

At the annual town meeting in Oak Bluffs next Tuesday, April 8, there will be a resolution to vote on requesting a responsible decommission and shutdown of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth.

As the town meeting season begins this spring, I hope that all Island residents will support funding for our Adult Education program, which has been offering classes to all of us for the last six years.

The high school girls’ lacrosse team will be traveling to England over spring vacation. This will be a trip to remember, as the girls will play five games abroad, stay with host families at each school and enjoy many of the wonderful sights while on tour.