MISLEADING

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

In response to the advertisement announcing the endorsement of Neal Maciel for sheriff by the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union representing the union workers of the Dukes County sheriff’s department, in the Oct. 21 issue of the Martha’s Vineyard Times, I would like to take this opportunity to clarify who this organization represents in the Dukes County sheriff’s office.

Gifts from the Sea

From a 1961 Gazette edition:

It was quite recently that the conversation among a group of representative men was pertaining to the valuation of real estate for taxation purposes. One man in the group said: “The biggest part of the houses in the town of ________ were built of lumber picked up on the beaches.”

Election Day 2010

How a prisoner is treated in the Island jail. How a wind power developer is greeted at the state house. How much sales tax you pay. These are only a few of the ways real individual human beings will be affected by decisions made in Tuesday’s election.

Conflict without Walls in West Tisbury

Castaways

Karen Coffey is tiny, but she packs a huge wallop psychically. Her clear eyes do not look away when she speaks to you. When I encountered her in her shop, Pyewacket in Vineyard Haven, I immediately felt the connection of a person who spoke from somewhere outside of her own ego.