Opinion
More citizens need to run for government committee seats or town management positions. This will ensure a greater diversity of ideas, proposed solutions, and more constructive discussions prior to the adoption of regulations and expenditures of each town.
At West Tisbury’s annual town meeting on Tuesday, April 8, at the West Tisbury School gym, there will be a warrant article asking the town to vote to use $30,000 of Community Preservation Act funds for design and permitting costs to dredge the Mill Pond.
Great is the fame of Martha’s Vineyard as the breeding place of geese, but an entirely new chapter has been added to the already long history of Vineyard goose breeding by Leo Volgmuth of Chilmark, who has trained a tall and dignified gander to accompany his master much like a pet dog.
On-Island, community-based, homegrown: these are the virtues we tend to celebrate. So it is that the decision by the Vineyard Nursing Association to sell out to an off-Island home health care group doesn’t sit easily.
This week the selectmen in the shire town approved a request by a new homeowner to remove four old shade trees on South Water street in Edgartown.
Writing about my friend Ken Edelin in the past tense so soon after his death (Dec. 30, 2013) is difficult and satisfying only in view of having an opportunity to salute the accomplishments of an Oak Bluffs black history maker.