Place Holders

From Gazette editions of February, 1959:

Town Coffers on Empty

For a Good Cause

The Community Preservation Act has been a fact of Island life for a relatively short period of time — it was only three years ago that all six towns had finally signed on to participate in the benefits of the state legislation, which matches a three per cent property tax surcharge with state money. This year the match has dropped below one hundred per cent, so suddenly the funds are even more precious. Community Preservation Act money may be used for open space, historic preservation and affordable housing.

On Ice

Obama’s Place in History, and Ours

A man with a keen sense of history will make history Tuesday when he takes the oath as the 44th president of these United States, a nation now confronting challenges of historic magnitude.

January Days

The whole Island, it seems, has got a case of the winter blahs. Of course the weather hasn’t helped — gray, rainy, icy, bitter cold, snowy — pull up the covers and make another pot of tea. Many down-Island storefronts are shuttered, recalling the year when Jaws II was filmed on the Island and Hollywood experts transformed Edgartown in July into a winter streetscape, complete with mud-splattered shops and great billows of manufactured rain and fog.

It’s like that for real now.