It’s late June and few people are thinking about politics, even though a campaign to elect a new U.S. Senator from Massachusetts is in its final days...
Islanders by this time of year have become accustomed to the early-morning sight of yellow buses rolling over Island roads that stop with brightly...
On the surface it seems like a simple and straightforward equation: more seals equals more great white sharks. The connection, however, is likely far...
A few weeks ago, the Gazette’s front page story on the aging of the Vineyard population hit home. From the story we learned that the number of...
For almost a third of my life I was a world traveler. I kept a journal from every trip I took and made an album of all the places I went. I visited...
The warm sunshine last Saturday didn’t deter bread buyers at the annual bake sale organized by the Vineyard Committee on Hunger — better to buy a...
Chilmark softball — always on Sunday, started 80 years ago at Hazel Flanders’s back lot. It moved to Toomey’s field and is now ensconced at Flanders...
The League of Women Voters of Martha’s Vineyard wants to remind Vineyard residents that Tuesday, June 25 is election day. This election day is the...
In the debate two weeks ago between Ed Markey and Gabriel Gomez, who are running in a special election on June 25 for the U.S. Senate, a stark...
President Obama today is faced by two implacable enemies. Outside our borders there is radical Islam, which hates him as the leader of the secular...
As some of you may know, I have been operating for two years, along my with partner Melody Cunningham (widow of the late, great reggae legend, Peter...
Oak Bluffs have you no pride? This is a town that depends on tourism and yet our beaches are a mess. Even on a good year they are covered with...

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