With his riveting piece in last week’s Vineyard Gazette, operations manager Jim Pfeiffer set the tone for a birthday bash unlike any scene on Davis Lane in Edgartown history.

It is easy for any one of us to drive by and see some car out of place and think, “I wonder what this is all about, oh well I have to get going.”

It is easy for any one of us to drive by and see some car out of place and think, “I wonder what this is all about, oh well I have to get going.”

To address recent media reports and concerns those reports have raised with Island residents, I want to clarify that the Steamship Authority’s proposed draft of the 2026 operating budget is still under development.

Housing is critical but housing alone is not enough. What makes the Island home is not just the roofs over our heads, but the life that happens beneath them.

I visited the Agricultural Fair with my two oldest grandchildren.