Opinion
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission is currently taking up the high school athletic fields question.
Question 3 asks Dukes County voters to support a change where the county treasurer would be appointed rather than elected.
We at NAMI MV (National Alliance on Mental Illness) want to thank superintendent Matt D’Andrea, assistant superintendent Richie Smith and director of student support services Hope MacLeod.
From the Nov. 1, 1974 edition of the Gazette by William A. Caldwell:
Every election is a suspense story. One expects oneself to hold one’s breath in a delicious agony of uncertainty. Once the votes are counted, it is obvious that the outcome was appropriate, indeed inevitable, indeed precisely as one had predicted all along.
When the Martha’s Vineyard Commission was created by an act of the legislature 46 years ago, it was not so much a reaction to development as a concern for what many saw coming, as the Island began to change from a quiet backwater to a more upscale summer resort.
Pennacook avenue in Oak Bluffs is a street full of stories, the latest of which is a lovely coincidence.