Although old hat in many localities, the political fund raising event for local office is a rarity on the Island, and nearly two hundred people attended the one held by Foster L. Silva on Labor Day...
He is scheduled to Visit the Cape This Weekend The possibility of President Kennedy’s attending the dinner being given in his honor at the Chappaquiddick Beach Club Labor Day was still...
Manuel Swartz Roberts, one of the best known and best loved figures of Martha’s Vineyard, died at 6 o’clock this morning after a prolonged period of failing health. As boat-builder,...
The Vineyarders closed out their most successful season to date with a sparkling 5-2 record, beating Nantucket, after beating them soundly the week before on the Vineyard. Gordon Bassett and John...
A brick sidewalk was laid this week along the School street side of the G. Holmes Perkins house on Davis Lane. Phil Dube & Sons were in charge of the work. Mr. and Mrs. Ferris M. Angevin...
The 1960 census of housing of the U.S. Department of Commerce counted 5,340 housing units in Dukes County. Of these: 4,019 were in sound condition with all plumbing2,032 were occupied1,579 were...
There is not a particle of doubt that Vineyarders who were alive and understanding of world events on Dec. 7. 1941 found themselves yesterday, on the twentieth anniversary of that day,...
The Regional High School football team went down to its fourth defeat of the season Saturday in a game with Nantucket at War Veterans’ Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven. The score was 14 to 8....
Vineyarders awoke this morning thoroughly bored with a hurricane called Esther. Like some mythical nature deity, she had languished out there to the math southwest, as if on a watery Olympus of...
Last week’s Gazette guessed that Grover Cleveland landed on the Vineyard more than once when he was President. Joseph E. Howes of West Tisbury supplies the information that he did - more so...
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