Opinion
Cooperative food markets are owned by the members who join them for an initial but reasonable investment. The markets work within the local community to offer local farm produce, dairy, seafood and meats along with regional produce and a wide variety of quality and organic dry goods and products.
The following letter was sent to NStar, the state Department of Agriculture, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and Tisbury town boards:
Democracy doesn’t work without competitive elections in which different points of view can be heard.
The first exports from New England to Europe were two cargoes of sassafras, gathered by Martin Pring and his company on Martha’s Vineyard and the neighboring islands and taken by Pring to England in ship Speedwell and bark Discoverer, two small vessels.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Jan. 25, 1985:
The computer age has come to the Edgartown Free Public Library.
Actually, it arrived quietly in the last weeks of 1984. Head librarian Linda Norton explains:
I have long been a devotee of The Moth Radio Hour that airs on WCAI (and is also produced there), where people tell true stories from their lives with no notes or props of any kind.