From the May 3, 1974 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Polly Woollcott Murphy:
“May Day!” the children said to each other with palpable excitement as they gathered in the West Tisbury schoolyard on Wednesday morning. “May Day!”
Opinion
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Kevin Parham’s new book, The Vineyard We Knew, certainly dispels the long-held stereotype that all of we African Americans who inhabit Martha’s...
An effort will be made by Congressman Charles L. Gifford to have the protection of Gay Head cliffs undertaken as one of the projects in the proposed...
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It took the town of Oak Bluffs forty years to accept what the Centers for Disease Control calls one of the ten great health achievements of the...
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Letters to the Editor
I wish to thank the many community members who have created and maintained Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard.
When David Lott wrote his lovely tribute to his mother, who turned 101 on Dec. 13 he did not complicate matters by writing of his grandmother.
I take the gravest possible offense with the word loophole to describe a judge not informing a defendant of the seriousness of their pleas.