Martha's Vineyard Opinion | Vineyard Gazette

Brendan O'Neill | Thursday, August 12 2021 - 4:29pm

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission is taking an important step to address the Island’s growth crisis through a new carrying capacity study.

Affordable housing has been part of the land bank’s planning since 1989, when it first adopted a housing policy.

Plans are nothing. Planning is everything. Dwight Eisenhower said that in a moment of Zen. It must have been Christmastime.

Twenty one years ago, Gary and I left lower Manhattan for up-Island Martha’s Vineyard and a dream to raise our twin sons by the sea.

But for the temperatures outdoors it could have been August last weekend in Edgartown. Or July.

At the height of boating activity last summer in Edgartown harbor, there was a pleasant surprise. Two dolphins spent three days swimming around.

We don’t need a lot of words to praise Rick Karney’s work in shellfish culture or himself. He was finest kind!