He was the quiet Islander, the longtime town attorney who had seen it all. I was the cub reporter stomping up the stairs to my office, shoulder bag stuffed with soft-lead pencils and notebooks filled with scribbles from some selectmen’s meeting, ready to be banged into a short story that the editors at the Cape Cod Times would inevitably make shorter by the time it appeared in print.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

I own Eco MV, a company I started because I felt the need to give something back to a community that had given me so much.

One Ocean, One Island

A Golden Incentive

From Gazette editions of January, 1960:

The following is an edited version of a letter sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission:

On Thursday, Jan. 21 you will consider tes timony to rescind the designation of an important overlay zoning district in the town of Oak Bluffs.

I am writing to you because I am opposed to the proposal to rescind the designation of the Copeland Plan district of critical planning concern.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission has a suc cessful history of protecting the Island from development that would enrich the few while hurting the public as a whole. Its temporary moratorium on large wind turbines deserves great praise as a courageous step given the risk of being branded antigreen energy. A pause to stop and understand fully the benefits and risks of siting industrial facilities (that’s what they are) on the Island is precisely what is needed because the debate over wind energy projects has become completely unbalanced.