Commentary
Commencement Day 2008
This morning the Vineyard Gazette salutes the graduating seniors at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School. High school commencement ceremonies begin at one o’clock on Sunday at the historic Tabernacle in the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs; the charter school graduation is tomorrow afternoon at one thirty at the school campus in West Tisbury.
Sweet Inspiration
The fragrances of spring are everywhere in the air, luring even the most sedentary out of doors. Dooryard lilacs — deep purple, lavender and white — are just gone by and fragrant wisteria is brightening many Vineyard gardens.
Only hours away, not much sleep, kids away in Washington, D.C., on a school trip and soon I will be closing on my own brand new home. I just can’t believe it. Finally our very own home here on the Vineyard. Wow. I have worked so hard my entire life and raising the twins alone for the last nine and a half years has been very hard but rewarding.
Letter to a Senator
June Third, Two Thousand and Eight
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
Hyannisport
Dear Senator Kennedy:
By now you have no doubt received so many expressions of love and hope and speedy recovery that this letter is certainly just one more scrap of newsprint for a heap of correspondence that must be approaching the size of a mountain.
FORGIVE BUT DON’T FORGET
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of June, 1983
The three Steamship Authority governors, facing a battle with Vineyard commuters that may cost the boat line $25,000 in legal fees, are digging in for the fight.
The last hope for compromise died this week when commuters rejected an offer by the authority to reduce the number of tickets in each commuter book. Thus, the flap over increased commuter ticket prices entered its sixth month and both sides are preparing for a second Department of Public Utilities hearing.