The county parking clerk is currently making the rounds among Island selectmen with a pitch to increase the fees for parking violations. Clerk...
One local favorite capsized twice in his kayak. Of the fifteen windsurfers who entered a race around the Island, two finished. Sailboats called for...
Trophy houses, as a group, are bad for the Vineyard. They are huge blots on our rural Island landscape. Summer people are overwhelmingly...
There’s an old saying, if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The old cliche could be applied to the...
Thirteen point seven billion years, cosmologists now feel, is the time it took for our universe to get its act together and produce the primordial...
25 Years Ago From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1982:
DYING DIFFERENTLY Editors, Vineyard Gazette: As with the Moshup Trail heathlands, Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard is a rare and unique species in...
KEEP HOSPICE SEPARATE Editors, Vineyard Gazette: I am not surprised to hear that the Vineyard Nursing Association is adding Medicare hospice...
GEOGRAPHY AND STRIPED BASS Editors, Vineyard Gazette: When considering the current state of the striped bass fishery, it is interesting to note...
From the April 24, 1959 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
For the second consecutive season the anglers were blessed with favorable weather on the opening day of the trout season, which was Saturday. Island anglers were abroad in force, complaining only that the weather was a trifle on the raw side, what with a southeast wind breezing, but otherwise perfect. A temperature not too low, and moderately overcast skies, are appreciated by early trout fishermen.
