Opinion
Editor’s Note: Henry Stephenson, a member of the Tisbury planning board, this week prepared a series of simulated images illustrating how proposed wind farms might affect views from the Gay Head Cliffs. The above image, a panorama taken from the Gay Head overlook, shows what turbines placed in planned state and federal areas would look like if the current version of the oceans plan is carried out. What follows is Mr. Stephenson’s written explanation of this and other images.
Natural History Education
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the All-Island School Committee:
For almost 40 years, Felix Neck has been providing generations of Island school children experiences in nature. Through the years, participating in a Felix Neck field trip has been an exciting and important part of the Island school experience. Our programs are vital to the educational experience of teachers, students and parents alike.
I believe the current approach to a national health program is not well suited to the nation’s needs and times and will likely founder as did the earlier Clinton plan.
Accountable for Learning
So it’s preemptive strike time in the budget season. Every year Vineyard schools superintendent James H. Weiss has the unenviable task of getting his line items in a row before any of the towns write their budgets, meaning Dr. Weiss must plan the Island’s educational spending without knowing how much the towns’ taxpayers will give him to spend. He is rightly forecasting that no dollar will go unexamined this year.
Seeds Dangling High
From Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1959:
Complications of Flu Clinics
Public health officials on the Island, as elsewhere, have been working feverishly in recent months to devise a plan to vaccinate Islanders against seasonal flu as well as the novel H1N1 flu virus before the winter, as theses viruses thrive in cooler temperatures and lower humidity. Both viruses can be life-threatening, though the course the flu will take, particularly the H1N1, remains unknown.