Opinion
You “pick up” a turkey with the explanation that you have to have something for dinner, so it might as well be turkey — it being Thanksgiving.
The obituary of Danny Kaeka noted that he had played fast pitch softball, and Islanders who remember his pitching stated that “no one could hit off him.”
I’ve never had turkey for Thanksgiving. Growing up, only my dad really liked turkey and we never would get one for this family and food-centric holiday.
Regarding the story in the Gazette last week about the bill to overhaul the public records law: We used to be a nation of laws but are not anymore.
I managed to take a therapeutic dip in the sea recently just to hold my record. Kind of a spur-of-the-moment thing.
Don Herman brought Friday Night Lights to the Vineyard. Not the book or television series, or the cliche of how much a team means to a community.