Editorials

Summer Turning

At the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market, an impromptu conversation popped up between two strangers standing in line waiting to buy bread.

 

 

 
Nobody loves a tax, so the news that the property tax rate is going down next year in several Island towns is perhaps cause for small celebration.
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Another storm blew through Martha’s Vineyard last weekend, with cold rain and wind that drove even the hardiest Islanders indoors for hearth fires, soup making and steaming mugs of tea.
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The Steamship Authority has finally come up with a design for the new Woods Hole terminal that appears to satisfy most of its critics, and that’s good news.
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Nearly forty years ago when the Atlantic striped bass were on the verge of disappearing altogether from our waters, the state and federal government launched a study to examine the troubling decline in stocks.
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As the fall sports seasons come to a close, the cross country teams are out in front — again.
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Had he lived a decade longer, Jack Ware would now be a hundred years old.
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