Commentary
Tisbury’s Preexisiting Condition
Selectmen in the Island’s only year-round port town are known for their crowded meeting agendas; it seems as if there is always a long list of brisk business to conduct in Tisbury, and that’s a good thing.
HONEST REPORTING
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
As a Vineyard summer resident and owner of a small oil and natural gas exploration and producing company in Midland, Tex., I have followed with interest the public debate on both the Cape Wind project and the efforts of the state of Massachusetts to allow wind turbine development in state waters close to the Vineyard’s southwest shore.
In December a member of our sophomore class, Kunal Datta, traveled to his homeland of India. While he was there our teacher had asked him to take a few minutes each day and write down some observations about differences between the United States and India, especially in education.
From Gazette editions of February, 1960:
Behind his eyes the part of him
That always knew the joke
Till at the end the only thing he needed
Was a smile.
— Gerry Storrow, from Requiem
Dan Aronie died early last Friday morning at his home in Vineyard Haven. He was 38. Dan had suffered for much of his life with both diabetes and multiple sclerosis.