Gazette Chronicle
Hardly a person is now alive on our fair and prosperous island who remembers the day when the Gazette made its first bow to the public and took its modest place in the periodicals of this section.
Not particularly odd, but interesting, is the fact that in the study of dates, year to year, it is an easy matter to find anniversaries.
An abandoned house, falling into decay, has always been regarded with a sort of dread. The Island has had many such houses and some of them have been called haunted.
Mary Ferreira probably worked the longest hours of anyone at the Up-Island Super Market, which she and her husband opened on May 26, 1965.
Much interest centers, these days, around the issuance of licenses to sell beer in the various Island towns.
It is a sad thing to contemplate the passing of the last whaling captain of Martha’s Vineyard.