Opinion
From Gazette editions of May, 1960:
Hit me! No, not with your classic cruiser, your hot rod or your muscle machine. All of these cars were part of the Aquinnah Power Cruise, and those shown above were stopped at Al’s Package Store to get a card that might give them four-of-a-kind, a full house or royal flush in the poker run. There were four more stops before the big gathering at the Cliffs.
On Tuesday, June 29, the town of Tisbury will hold a special town meeting to seek the passage of two separate, but related spending articles concerning the town’s collective bargaining agreement with the Tisbury police union. The details of the collective bargaining agreement were the result of a Joint Labor Management Committee arbitration award, which both the town and the police union agree is a fair and equitable resolution. The town of Tisbury and union encourage Tisbury residents to attend the special town meeting and support the passage of these two articles.
The other day I brought my son, Hardy, to his last soccer game of the spring season. Hardy is five and half now and the game of soccer still rather new to him. Dribbling the ball, passing and scoring are secondary considerations. Mostly, he likes seeing his friends.
Flaming Pooched Eggs
From Gazette editions of June, 1935:
The scene was a Vineyard street, a parked flivver at the curb. Upon the scene appeared two pedestrians, who observed that a fire was blazing merrily in the hood of the car. One promptly ran to summon aid while the other stood near. Appeared next another car, whose driver dismounted and promptly extinguished the fire in the parked machine.
POSITIVE SIGNS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
As the nation weathers its horrific, self-inflicted, environmental Pearl Harbor in the Gulf of Mexico, we also continue to endure the ongoing, widespread, business as usual devastation caused by coal use and the invisible harm emanating from our fleet of nuclear power plants (tritium leaking into drinking water aquifers, for example).