Letters To The Editor

Letters to the Editor

STAY DRY

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

We are writing to express our strong conviction regarding the so-called beer and wine issue in Vineyard Haven. Our conviction grows out of a good many years of experience and observation in a considerable number of communities where we have been associated.

 

 

 

OUT OF BOUNDS

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

As I sit at my kitchen table, working late, surrounded by quiet, darkened homes with sleeping residents, I am hearing popping sounds that are carrying on the wind from the not-so-distant distance for the second night in a row. If I didn’t know better, I would think that someone was shooting off fireworks. These are not the sounds of fireworks, but of firearms. It is hunting season on Martha’s Vineyard, and it is 12:39 a.m.

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STRIPER CONSERVATION BILL

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The following letter was sent to Rep. Matthew Patrick on the subject of the striped bass conservation bill, which is pending in the state legislature:

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FRIENDS INDEED

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

I would like to thank the Oak Bluffs police and ambulance, Martha’s Vineyard Hospital emergency room staff and the members of Boston Med Flight who took excellent care of my daughter Amanda.

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PAYING TOO MUCH

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

On Tuesday the town of Tisbury voted to give the Island Housing Trust, a private, nonprofit land development company, $160,000 to help pay expenses related to the Lambert’s Cove Road affordable housing project. This vote upsets my stomach.

How can affordable housing upset anyone’s stomach? Well, it’s all in the details.

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