Opinion
Retire Pilgrim
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
With the Pilgrim nuclear power plant now operating on an extended license and three of the same vintage and design General Electric reactors at Fukushima still dangerously out of control, I think it is worthwhile reviewing just what the federal government’s rationale for spawning the commercial nuclear power industry was in the first place.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of July 6, 1934:
The night before the Fourth in Edgartown was described as the quietest in years. Last year’s night before was uneventful, but this year exceeded it in calm, and Chief Geddis said it was the most tranquil in his five years with the force, Special officers Herbert Simpson, Antone Anirada, Sylvester Luce, Henry Luce and George K. Searle, had little to do, as it turned out.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of June 30, 1961: The tales of the grandparents of the oldest inhabitants carry the reader back into antiquity.
It was almost a foregone conclusion that things would end badly for Roger Wey as far back as February when the town selectmen called for a police investigation of the council’s accounts at a meeting to which he was not even invited.
There is a sign on a lawn in Vineyard Haven that reads, Drive Like Your Children Live Here. A good idea, but perhaps too narrow a sentiment, implying that there is a divide behind the wheel between how Islanders and summer visitors navigate the roads.
After 61 years, Yuval Elizur, Israeli journalist and former Israeli consul in New York, recently returned to the Vineyard for a visit. In the 1950s, he had honeymooned with his bride, Judith Neulander, at the Menemsha Inn. He nostalgically remembered losing his wedding ring on a swim there and enjoying evening slide shows offered by the late Alfred Eisenstadt, a fellow inn guest.