PAYING TOO MUCH

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

On Tuesday the town of Tisbury voted to give the Island Housing Trust, a private, nonprofit land development company, $160,000 to help pay expenses related to the Lambert’s Cove Road affordable housing project. This vote upsets my stomach.

How can affordable housing upset anyone’s stomach? Well, it’s all in the details.

ERRORS AND OMISSIONS

Editors, The Vineyard Gazette:

The report of the Chilmark selectmen’s meeting in the Nov. 6 Gazette should have been titled “Reporter’s Errors and Omissions.” This story supposedly focused on my request that the selectmen reconsider their decision for the training rather than the removal of the dog that killed our little Yorkie.

SHOCKING NEWS

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The following is an e-mail that went out to an array of West Tisbury residents on Wednesday:

MEANEST GRINCH

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The meanest person on the Vineyard is the grinch who stole my handicap parking permit from my mirror in my car at the Vineyard Haven post office.

Olga Hirschhorn

Vineyard Haven

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BLOWING HOT AIR

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

RED STOCKING TIME

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

TO SEWER, OR NOT

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Regarding the selectmen’s rush to include the Island Grove sewer article on Edgartown’s Oct. 27 special town meeting warrant, I suggest we all take a moment to consider a few pieces of the puzzle before committing ourselves to more debt.

For one thing, if the wastewater department receives the grant, will all the residents of the Island Grove subdivision be required to hook up to the sewer system once it is installed? For me this point is key.