Commentary
Mishaps and Movies
From Gazette editions of August, 1984:
The Rev. John D. Schule, minister of the Edgartown Federated Church, was out jogging the other day at 7 a.m. in the fire trail in the State Forest when something came crashing out of the blue, blindsiding him and knocking him to the ground. “I had run about four miles when it happened,” he recalls. “At first I thought I had been ambushed. I thought I had been mugged. I was scared.”
Health Care Agenda for All
The national debate over health care reform is intensifying as President Obama presses ahead with an ambitious agenda for overhauling a system that has grown so enormous and so complicated that it is impossible to understand all the working parts.
Compromise Needed
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I am writing a follow-up to your editorial in the August 11 issue of the Gazette, relating to the deepening division on Chappaquiddick. It is important that the Chappy community come to some consensus on the issue of whether or not a bike path is desired.
We are all aware that runaway national health care costs and the need to increase access to care are the main reasons for health reform. Martha’s Vineyard health care providers are certainly feeling the effects of rising costs on a local level. We have read recently in the local papers about how expensive procedures are at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and how budget stressed the folks at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services are.
BAKERS RESPOND
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
From a 1964 Gazette Column by Joseph Chase Allen:
There are inhabitants of the Island, especially of Vineyard Haven, who can recall a rather tumbledown but relatively large wharf far down the shore below the town’s present small boat basin.