Commentary
Catching Up on Daylight Saving
Daylight Saving Time is upon us again. On Sunday, March 13, most of the United States will spring forward and enjoy an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day. Hawaii and most of Arizona abstain; the Navajo Nation residing in the state observes the tradition.
What follows is an edited selection of reader comments from the Gazette Web site last week.
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Court Rules No Price Fixing on Gas
Seismic Shifts, Trustees Too Silent
The announcement last week by The Trustees of Reservations of major staffing and organizational changes on the Island operation is unsettling less for what it said than for what it did not say. Ordinarily personnel changes may be taken as matters of ordinary business — a new manager is named here, a position is eliminated there. But the changes announced by the Trustees in a garden-variety press release that arrived by electronic mail are anything but ordinary.
Quiet Island
The Island in winter is often a calm affair. But during this first week of March it has downshifted to a gear slower than walking, slower even than sitting on a stump and breathing in the landscape. It is as if the Island has been emptied of the last remnant of noise and rambunctiousness left.
It is winter break here on the Island. The schools are all closed.
Editor’s Note: The following was sent by e-mail to Vineyard Conservation Society members on Wednesday morning this week.
PURE JOY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Life seldom makes sense, especially when those we love are taken from us in ways that are as terrible as they are inexplicable, and such was Joy Flanders’s untimely passing as the end result of a 15-month battle with melanoma which she waged so bravely.