Commentary
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...
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...
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...
Editor’s Note: The following letter was sent to Paul Diodati, director of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. The letter was also...
CONNECTING FACTS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
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...
Place Holders
From Gazette editions of February, 1959:
On Ice
For a Good Cause
The Community Preservation Act has been a fact of Island life for a relatively short period of time — it was only three years ago...
Town Coffers on Empty
Even though winter has just begun, I think we all can’t wait to see the snow melt and finally see a sign of spring again. It has already been a...
January Journal
From Gazette editions of January, 1934:
The reeking of the sea all about the Island is something new in the way of natural...