Letters To The Editor

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.

 

 

 

One Man’s Humor Leaves Another Not Laughing

Letters To The Editor

AUTHOR’S CORRECTION

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

In a piece I wrote that appeared in the Sept. 5 Gazette I said that Sarah Palin when a mayor in Alaska attempted to get the local librarian to ban certain books. That statement is fact. That the librarian refused is also fact. I erred, however, when I stated that Ms. Palin then had the reluctant librarian fired; she only tried to accomplish that dubious deed. She failed, thus casting some shadow on her vaunted ability to get things done.

Allan Manings

Edgartown

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Letters to the Editor

Letters To The Editor

ON GREAT SALT POND

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

As members of the Great Pond Foundation board of directors and riparian owners, we’d like to thank Edmund Stevens for his letter of Sept. 2 making some cogent observations regarding the health of Edgartown Great Pond. We’d also like to address his concerns in print, since I assume there are others who share them.

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Letters to the Editor

Letters To The Editor

POND ALGAE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

When we arrived in Aquinnah in mid-July, I noticed a substantial growth of green algae in the Herring Creek area of Menemsha Pond. The articles describing the algae problems in Edgartown Great Pond paint a picture much like what I observed, including the diminution of the algae later on in August.

I suspect the problems described in your articles may be Island-wide and not just confined to the Edgartown Great Pond. It’s time for all of us to start thinking about solutions.

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Letters to the Editor

Letters To The Editor

BEST BOOKSELLER

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Independent book stores — while beloved by loyal fans — find it difficult to survive under the best of circumstances, no less the tragic fire that gutted Bunch of Grapes. They were one of the first stores to buy the book America according to Connor Gifford, which I co-authored with an amazing young man from Nantucket who has Down Syndrome.

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Letters to the Editor

Letters To The Editor

LYME SCIENCE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Despite what your story (Uneasiness Over Lyme Disease Spreads, August 15) suggests, the science behind the Lyme disease guidelines issued by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has never been in question and the guidelines remain in place today.

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