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Improvements to emergency services, including a new response system at the town beach, challenges facing the town fire department and the ever-...
After a long, sultry August day in Oak Bluffs, summer residents were doused with a bucket of cold water on Tuesday at the annual summer taxpayers...
As members of Congress limp back to their home districts and the president heads for summer vacation on the Vineyard, still bruised from the debt...
The former Falmouth town manager was selected for the top administrative post in Oak Bluffs in a unanimous vote by the town selectmen Tuesday....
Tisbury will begin assessing $1,000 a day against the contractor for the town’s troubled new emergency services building.
The town selectmen...
Every time I see President Obama autographing a piece of legislation in the Oval Office, I’m in awe of how neat his desk looks. I mean, here’s the...
For as long as I have been an active member of Amnesty International, and certainly from the mid-1980s, it has been taken as an article of faith...
Within a healthy system of food produc tion and distribution, farms would not need “saving.” However, as it is, we are losing farmland (and the...
Midsummer Steam
The evening sun is picking up its pace, and so is everything else on the Vineyard. As the sun races too fast for the horizon, we...
Every year the Martha’s Vineyard Ecu menical Youth Group goes on a mission trip. Last year we went to Washington D.C. to help in a homeless shelter...
Summer Swells
From Gazette editions of August, 1986:
In the middle of what will be his last long summer on the Vineyard for some time, Angelo...
HURTFUL LESSON
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Dating back to the early 1940s when the Steamship Authority’s ferry would leave from New Bedford, it...