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An air of satisfaction prevails at the animal shelter these days due to the outstanding success of the garden party last Monday.
A year has passed since Richard and Jennifer Schifter took a plunge into the Vineyard unknown and moved their 8,000-square-foot house away from an...
The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $277,872.53 for the business week ending on Friday, June 27, 2014. The land bank receives its...
The Grey Barn Farm in Chilmark started with just three cows. Now there are 25 Dutch Belted ladies grazing the fields, as well as pigs and chickens.
Early summer arrived like a small lurch on the Vineyard this year, as if someone had hit the gas pedal a little too hard. Clear June days with warm...
I am told that multiflora roses are invasive and that it was all a mistake when the first of them were planted in the 1950s or 1960s to border up-...
Near the end of the school year my son had a field trip to the Boston Museum of Science. As I drove him to the ferry I put on some traveling music,...
With the Pilgrim nuclear power plant now operating on an extended license and three of the same vintage and design General Electric reactors at...
It saddens me that, once again, I feel the need to display signs on my lawn, house, car, and clothing that say “Don’t Bomb Iraq.”
President Obama,...
The Fourth of July is a tale in which we learned it is not unpatriotic to question authority, hence our independence of the king. There are other...
Retire Pilgrim
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
With the Pilgrim nuclear power plant now operating on an extended license and three of the same vintage and...
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of July 6, 1934:
The night before the Fourth in Edgartown was described as the quietest in years. Last year’s night...