Opinion
I am happy to introduce this year’s sophomores who will be speaking out throughout the year. Like most young people, they have strong opinions about a great many issues and here is their chance to share them. One of the first projects that we worked on together as a class was our family and ethnic history and in doing that we found that our ancestors, and in some cases ourselves, came from so many parts of the world including Ireland, England, Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Spain, India. One of our group can trace his ancestry to the Wampanoag Tribe of Martha’s Vineyard.
Message for Mr. Bowles
Stop the clock and restore full jurisdiction to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission. This is the message that a delegation of Island selectmen representing every Island town intend to deliver to Ian Bowles, the state Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
That is, when and if they can meet with him.
Counting Scarecrows
Do you ever get drawn into reading the little blurbs of “news” and “entertainment” that the home page of your computer distracts you with as you are on your way to your e-mails? They catch your eye while you are actually in a hurry and thinking of something else. For instance, how a major star “died on the operating table” — and was brought back to life by a gifted surgeon. Then, “the upset of the season” of a tennis favorite. You move on. But now comes this: (just a quick thumbnail, but enough to trip you up).
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:
The wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound is designed to use technology that will be obsolete before the project is built. The project represents a knee-jerk reaction to real long-term energy needs, and opportunism intended to appeal to the casually fashionable environmentalist.
The project is modeled on the failed megagrid system of the past, in which the drop across the system is measurable against the remnant of product delivered.