Slow Vineyard

Helping Those Who Help

For a sense of what the Vineyard Nursing Association means to many Islanders, read the final lines of obituaries published in the Gazette. More than a few of them ask that, in lieu of flowers, people remember the deceased by donating to the association, which provides home nursing care.

Bringing Engine No. 2 Home

To run, maintain and protect a town, taxpayers buy all sorts of vehicles: dump trucks, police cruisers and backhoes, among others.

Yet whatever loyal and lengthy service any of them render, they won’t begin to attract the affection inspired by a fire engine.

North Tisbury Restaurant Revival

Jackson and Mary Kenworth want to take over the burned-out West Tisbury restaurant known most recently as Deon’s but also historically known as the Ice House and the Red Cat. The little restaurant sits along State Road in the North Tisbury corridor that is dotted with a pleasant country mix of small businesses and homes.

Fido and Kitty on Holiday

A Shark Drops By

It didn’t take much. A large shark was sighted on the morning of July tenth off South Beach in Edgartown. Within twenty-four hours, three Island beaches had been closed and reopened, a false sighting hoax at Joseph A. Sylvia State Beach had been perpetrated, and media around the world had picked up the story.

The shark probably still doesn’t know all the fuss it caused.