If there is an incontrovertible perennial punching bag on our Island it is of course the SSA.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission is currently taking up the high school athletic fields question.

Question 3 asks Dukes County voters to support a change where the county treasurer would be appointed rather than elected.

We at NAMI MV (National Alliance on Mental Illness) want to thank superintendent Matt D’Andrea, assistant superintendent Richie Smith and director of student support services Hope MacLeod.

From the Nov. 1, 1974 edition of the Gazette by William A. Caldwell:
Every election is a suspense story. One expects oneself to hold one’s breath in a delicious agony of uncertainty. Once the votes are counted, it is obvious that the outcome was appropriate, indeed inevitable, indeed precisely as one had predicted all along.

I have been through many shortages on Martha’s Vineyard.

It is happening. The time of year you turn on your heat long enough to take the chill out then turn it off again.

Nonagenarian is a noun defined as a person who is from 90 to 99 years old.

I am so saddened to report the passing of Chappaquiddick resident Allyson Getsinger on Oct. 18 after a 10-month battle against cancer.

As of Wednesday morning 54 per cent of the voters have already cast their ballots in Aquinnah.