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:

Shopping the Vineyard Way

Aesop, two dozen centuries ago, allegedly wrote that you couldn’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. (Or perhaps it was more recent and it was Bill Shakespeare and it was a velvet purse.) Modern science, either by evolution, revolution, or glorious accident, has proven that now it can be done. That transformation is exactly what our Island needs. Both Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury can be considered to be in the phase known as the sow’s ear.

Eli Dagostino, a freshman at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School is the Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s new media intern working with Martha’s Vineyard Community Television. To launch his year-round internship, Eli served as the institute’s youth delegate to the Caribbean Media Exchange Conference on Sustainable Development early this month on the island of St. Lucia. Eli joined youth delegates from Canada, New Jersey and the Caribbean islands of Barbados, Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent and students from St.

Fishmongers’ Tales

From Gazette editions of December, 1984:

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.