FISHING LEGACY LOST

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

I’d like to commend Mark Alan Lovewell and the Vineyard Gazette for the excellent story, Owner of Quitsa Strider in Menemsha Sells His Fishing Rights, Ending an Era. It’s important for our coastal communities to better understand the unrelenting obstacles our fishermen are up against, and your story really brought that message home.

Veterans Day 2007

Children learn it like a nursery rhyme: the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. That was when the first world war effectively ended, in 1918. After unbearable slaughter, at least twenty million people dead and millions more left as refugees, the war to end all wars was exhausted with a truce, an armistice. It became a day to remember.

Eroding Confidence in County Affairs

With the county charter study commission midway through its work evaluating the vital topic of whether the Island needs county government — hiring a county manager at this stage in the game feels almost like a robotic exercise of going through the motions. The county commission plans to interview three finalists for the county manager post on Saturday.

Harnessing Positive Energy

Construction is beginning on the drawbridge at the entrance to Lagoon Pond, straddling the border between Oak Bluffs and Tisbury. I’d like to bring everyone up to date on the status of the overall project and note some of the issues that the Vineyard community will have to deal with in the coming months.

As you probably recall, MassHighway’s approach is to first build a temporary bridge alongside the existing bridge, in order to reroute traffic. Then, a permanent drawbridge will be built in the alignment of the existing bridge.

75 Years Ago

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of March, 1932: