Commentary
On Stage
Cue the lights, please. In rooms small and large, some even sporting curtains, children are filling stages all over the Vineyard these...
SUPPORTING DIVERSITY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The Island community recently suffered a tragic loss with the death of a young woman. No one...
Lobsters and Ewes
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of March, 1983:
A LESSER EVIL
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I had to miss the Cape Wind hearing. I support Cape Wind. For me it is an indication that we are...
Vineyarders will enjoy arguing for many more years about when the world will run out of oil, about the causes and effects of climate change, about...
The Last Heath Hen
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of March, 1933:
Chilmark fifty years ago was a different place. Well, of course it was. There weren’t so many people. There weren’t so many summer people. And...
As most on the Vineyard now have learned, this past Sunday we lost a prominent member of our community, Herb Putnam. I write today to share with...
The heartburn in West Tisbury over the tri ennial real estate revaluation, which hit riparian owners on the north and south shore with increased...
As our town counsel Ronald H. Rappaport pointed out at a recent Oak Bluffs selectmen’s meeting, access and use of a town park is not a privilege...
Welcome Home, Mr. Turkington
He was a quiet politician in a noisy political arena. He was sometimes so quiet he seemed out of place in the...
Cinematic Gift
“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk,” film critic Pauline Kael said. “A good movie can make you feel alive again, in...