TOM DRESSER 508-693-1050 (tomdresser@aol.com) When high school hockey player BreAnne Russell compared hockey to pizza — it’s always good, she said — I felt obligated...

TOM DRESSER 508-693-1050 (tomdresser@aol.com) Thirty months ago today, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans. Anyone who has seen photos of the area knows the...

TOM DRESSER 508-693-1050 (tomdresser@aol.com) It’s good to be back. I’ve been asked to fill in the column to give Holly Nadler a three-week respite to catch her breath...

Each winter Featherstone Center for the Arts, the Vineyard’s only year-round art center, undergoes a rebirth. While students register for art classes, the gallery is refurbished....

I turned 21 in 1968, the first year I had the chance to vote. With an anti-Roosevelt Republican father and a liberal leaning Democratic mother, I tread a torturous political path. And 1968...

What would Christmas be without the annual hospice concert? If we are lucky, we never will have to find out. Once again Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Oak Bluffs was decked...

Years ago, Daniel Cuff was cast in the role of a tree in his sixth grade play. Now Mr. Cuff, as a high school junior, has blossomed with an accomplished performance as Clay-Boy Spencer, a...

Storyteller par excellence Susan Klein captured the imagination of more than 40 people Saturday night at the Unitarian-Universalist Society of Martha’s Vineyard on Main street in...

If it weren’t for the war. Fifty years ago this winter, in February, 1958, I began my journalistic career as editor of a fledgling monthly newspaper, the Springdale News. I had just...

My father in law Bernie Cournoyer died two weeks ago. A few days before his death, he asked about his garden, wished us well and shook hands. It was sad to see him go, but his body gave out...