Paul Jackson died recently at the age of 87. You probably never heard of him, which I’m sure was fine with Paul.

April begins a fool and ends a sage. She tags the tails of March, the cruelest month with high hopes and fierce winds.

I always thought I would have one last chance to say goodbye to my grandfather.

The proposed housing bank bill replaces the direct democracy of town meeting with a central committee, consisting of seven commissioners, one elected from each town, and a seventh commissioner elected Islandwide.

So it is April at last. The daffodils are up, but not all in bloom yet.

Our dad Richard Leonard was promoted to president and CEO of the Martha’s Vineyard Cooperative Bank in 1989 — a big job for an Island boy freshly graduated from University of Massachusetts.