I am writing to thank the West Tisbury voters for passing, with a bit more than the required two thirds majority, the warrant article that designates the town-owned parcel of land at 401 State Road for affordable housing.
The skyline of the most recent issue of the Vineyard Gazette was a quote from Sly Stone taken from the lyrics of Sly and the Family Stone’s wonderful song Those Summer Days.
The surprising personal criticisms of Jim Malkin, the Vineyard’s recently appointed SSA governor and chairman of the board, by three of the four other governors, do not bode well for righting the listing SSA ship.
We have owned a house in Vineyard Haven since 2005, we live in a small town in upstate New York similar to MV.
I read with relief and affection the op-ed by Dr. Henry Nieder, and the letter from Julia Mitchell Christensen.
Perhaps the covid 19 pandemic and gauge for human safety and activity is analogous to the phases of fog density:
As a lifelong Islander, I am deeply upset by the verbal abuse with which some of my dearest family friends from New York, who happened to be here when the pandemic struck, have received simply because of their license plate.
