Commentary
ANGELS AND EXPERTS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I write in direct response to last week’s letter written by Ebba Hierta, and would like to clarify...
Adopt a Solution
Options for the future of the Island’s animal shelter will be presented next week to the all-Island selectmen and to Dukes County...
Luther Madison: 1924-2009
Luther Madison was Medicine Man to his people, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), for decades until his death...
Harbingers Ring in Spring
Just before February vacation, my class went to Edgartown Cinema and saw the film Defiance. It was a movie about the Bielski brothers who survived...
For every disaster, there is a survivor and I am he,” declares Matt Flynn, stepping towards the three spirits listening as he speaks the ancient...
Tisbury has a warrant article for the annual town meeting to see whether the town will appropriate $1,566,000 to start setting aside money to pay...
Cast Your Ballots!
From the Gazette editions of March, 1909:
Call me Tossu. Two and a half years ago I embarked upon a watery voyage that brought me to an Island in the Atlantic. After some land travel I...
A Light in the Gloom
President Obama this week presented his first budget in Washington, D.C., a spending plan crafted to address not only the...
Closing the Gap
Such is the unpredictability of the season: last Saturday’s sunshine prompted a Tisbury man to shed his shirt and go bare-chested...
CARE FOR THE DYING
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I was heartened to read of the Vineyard Nursing Association plans to bring a Medicare-certified...