Opinion
Board President Responds
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Last Monday, July 14 the board of directors of the Martha’s Vineyard Boys’ and Girls’ Club decided, after considerable deliberation, to dismiss the employees of our Second Hand Store and close the store temporarily pending reorganization and re-staffing. Since the store is an important fixture on the Island and our action has evoked a storm of discussion, we feel we owe the community some explanation.
Slow Vineyard
Helping Those Who Help
For a sense of what the Vineyard Nursing Association means to many Islanders, read the final lines of obituaries published in the Gazette. More than a few of them ask that, in lieu of flowers, people remember the deceased by donating to the association, which provides home nursing care.
WHAT’S NEXT?
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
At last the garage monstrosity will come down, but what will rise in its place? My off-Island neighborhood has been plagued with gigantic homes that are built right up to the property lines, crowding the smaller original houses.
Over the last five years, Mr. Moujabber has been granted the opportunity to wring out every last ounce of his rights — I hope the next round of deliberations will focus more on the rights of his neighbors.
Chip Coblyn
In the Forest
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of July, 1933:
Capt. A. S. Knight, commanding officer of the Civilian Conservation Corps on the Vineyard, has received orders permitting the enlistment of fifteen local men for service with the 106th company, the company at present on the state forest on the great plain. This will bring the company to about 200 men, the strength allotted to the camp by the government.
Barack Obama has been sprint ing so rapidly to the center that we need binoculars to find progressive ideas in the 2008 election.
So I was open to Looking Back From 2101 (Xlibris) by Steve Halpern. Based on Edward Bellamy’s 1887 novel Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887, the Halpern book imagines a Philadelphia factory worker awakened from a 104-year trance to discover a socialist utopia in 2101.