Living — and Buying — Locally Try buying a souvenir T-shirt these days and you can see through the window that it’s half off, but the store is...

sixth graders

On Jan. 20 Barack Obama became President. It was the first time since the election of President John Kennedy that the young people really got into...

Barack Obama

Inauguration Day A man Stood in the sunlight And spoke And the crowd listened and heard him. He spoke of hope and of hard things and he...

cartoon

I went to the inauguration thank s to my college friend, David Skaggs, a former Colorado congressman, now the chairman of the board of the newly...

fishing haul

Editor’s Note: The following letter was sent to Paul Diodati, director of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. The letter was also...

hockey game on Parsonage Pond

Last week after the snowfall, I went walking. I always try to beat the plows and the sanders, and for awhile I did. The only sounds were the...

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Letters to the Editor

The Steamship Authority’s vessel Martha’s Vineyard now sports a vintage whistle, the pleasing sound of which harks back to a time of proper ships,...

Words of John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower and many folk singers echo around this troubled world. Holly Near is on a nationwide tour including...

I was enjoying your editorial, Common Purpose, until I got to the paragraph that expressed your support of ObamaCare. I could not disagree more. When...

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