Following a request from the Island Housing Trust, the Martha's Vineyard Commission rescinded a DRI decision on a Vineyard Haven building that was never built.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of March 1948:

When people ask me what makes Martha’s Vineyard so special, I only have three words, “zoning, zoning and zoning.”

After weeks of attending public hearings, writing carefully considered letters and making personal pleas to the MV Commission, our family did not receive any mitigation or consideration with regards to the proposed bowling alley and bar on Uncas avenue. Abutters to the south were taken care of but we to the north were left out in the cold. As a result, the only thing that separates a proposed commercial parking lot five feet away from our back porch is a 30 year old fence.

How did this happen?

Today as we drive by the Mill Pond, a prominent gateway to our town, we can see growth edging out into the pond — little formations of grassy islands. Some of it dies off and falls to the bottom, adding to the pond’s shallowness.

Because of the extreme danger posed to the Cape and Islands should an accident occur at the aging, failing Pilgrim power plant, concerned people are working to place a full page ad in the Sunday Cape Cod Times asking to close Pilgrim now.

It is a great blessing to live and work in a community where the various religious groups so willingly step up to help each other when it is needed, for which I along with the people of Grace Church am greatly thankful.

Praise and thanks to two women administering CPR and telephoning for help when I fell unconscious on a walk near Ripley’s Field in Tisbury.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cleaveland House Poets, it seems an opportune time to thank William Waterway publicly for his role in bringing the poetry group back to life.

Town issues, including boats left at town landings and cell phone service on Chappaquiddick, were discussed at the Edgartown selectmen's meeting on Monday.