Commentary
From Gazette editions of May, 1960:
WIND TOWERS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I just don’t feel comfortable that any planning agency on this Island has the comprehension or rules in place to handle the potential for the proliferation of hundreds of steel towers that may be constructed on this Island in the coming years.
Hit me! No, not with your classic cruiser, your hot rod or your muscle machine. All of these cars were part of the Aquinnah Power Cruise, and those shown above were stopped at Al’s Package Store to get a card that might give them four-of-a-kind, a full house or royal flush in the poker run. There were four more stops before the big gathering at the Cliffs.
What follows are comments made by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, addressed to Robert A. DeLeo, the Speaker of the House of Representatives:
Because so many Vineyarders have been stirred up by the Cape Wind Project and because our various governing bodies are wrestling with the issue of residential wind turbines, isn’t it time we had a rational, non-emotional discussion of the future of wind power on our Island?
POSITIVE SIGNS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
As the nation weathers its horrific, self-inflicted, environmental Pearl Harbor in the Gulf of Mexico, we also continue to endure the ongoing, widespread, business as usual devastation caused by coal use and the invisible harm emanating from our fleet of nuclear power plants (tritium leaking into drinking water aquifers, for example).