Opinion
Praise and thanks to two women administering CPR and telephoning for help when I fell unconscious on a walk near Ripley’s Field in Tisbury.
Because of the extreme danger posed to the Cape and Islands should an accident occur at the aging, failing Pilgrim power plant, concerned people are working to place a full page ad in the Sunday Cape Cod Times asking to close Pilgrim now.
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of March 1948:
To protect the character of our community, Tisbury residents should attend a Tisbury Zoning Board of Appeals hearing to protest a controversial, landmark decision by the Office of Building Inspection & Zoning Enforcement.
The off-season journey this year has traveled down an icy road with few rest stops along the way. Some years Islanders get cranky with cabin fever but this year most appear dazed, too deficient in Vitamin D to do much more than shrug while lacing up their boots..
Finance committees have been holed up in meetings since the first of the year, reviewing department budgets, line by line. Often little public attention is paid to budget matters until they get to the town meeting floor.