At the 2015 annual Falmouth Chamber of Commerce Awards Dinner all of the local politicians were invited on stage to have their chance at the microphone. State Rep. Tim Madden was among them.

Chad Baybayan stands about five feet, eight inches tall. He has a swimmer’s body, suggesting a capability of delivering powerful strokes and a strong finishing kick.

One-and-only tradespersons are probably inevitable on a small Island. In certain fields, there isn’t enough market demand to feed two.

Fronds bend to be touched By the young girl in the red hat Who strokes them like the silk fur Of a contented cat arching Against her leg./p>

Back in the summer of 1988 while Donald Trump was publicly basking in the success of his book, The Art of the Deal, he quietly came to the Vineyard with a little known blonde model, and former Resaca Beach Poster Girl from Dalton, Ga.

I was driving down Old County Road after the latest snowfall remade the Island’s brown and gnarled February branches into resting egrets.