On behalf of the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council, I want to extend my gratitude to Alison Mead and the Vineyard Gazette for their coverage of our annual gathering in remembrance of the atomic bomb attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs were dropped 67 years ago and every August 6 since then has

I recently enjoyed the article in the August 10 Gazette, “Health Care Checkup: Access to Primary Care Improving.” I am glad to hear that the hospital staff, Vineyard Medical Services and Island Health Care are all taking or have a waiting list for new patients. Unfortunately, I was saddened and disappointed that

The line-up of characters: Dion Clarke, president of Harlem Fine Arts Show and chief dumbo who has no understanding of advanced events planning nor with taking precautions to safeguard valuable artwork; Kathy Burton, board selectman chairman of wherever, who didn’t think too clearly if things are legal or not (see July 13 Vineyard Gazette); various Harthaven residents with a mentality of, well, clams, who spoke against allowing a permit of a big tent for only four

Peter Robb’s assertion, in his letter published August 3, that “the top 1 per cent already pay 70 per cent of federal taxes and the top 20 per cent pay 95 per cent of the taxes” is so far from the truth that it deserves four Pinnochios.

Now Mitt Romney has picked as his running mate the guy who has been gunning for Medicare! With Romney’s support, Ryan would end Medicare as we know it. This plan was part of a national budget that Ryan authored that is so radical that the New York Times called it “the most extreme budget plan passed by a House of Congress in modern times.”

If you were not there you missed one of the classiest acts ever — Cynthia Riggs doing stand-up storytelling sponsored by The Moth at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs. The Moth promotes storytelling “live and without notes” all over the country, many of which are heard on NPR.