Veterans Day is Monday, and Martha’s Vineyard will join its counterparts around the state and country in observing the national holiday.

A recent story in the Vineyard Gazette (Draft Guidelines Released for Treatment of Lyme Disease, 9/6/19) presents simplistic and insufficiently researched coverage of a complex and controversial topic.

Government work is a thankless job. It is no small feat to tackle sea level rise and extreme weather, especially on an Island.

Several weeks ago, at American Legion Hall 257 in Vineyard Haven, we honored two World War II warriors who had died.

So symptomatic of his life, it seems there’s not been much notice this year of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s greatest authors, Herman Melville.