Editorials
Once home to 15,000 sheep, Martha’s Vineyard is two centuries past its peak as an agricultural hub, but happily farm culture on the Island is having a modest renaissance.
Today, May 14, marks exactly 175 years since the first issue of the Vineyard Gazette was published.
Reliant on summer tourism for their economies, the Cape and Islands have far more that unites than divides them, from a lack of affordable housing to looming climate changes.
After a cold spring that felt endless this year, including a baby blizzard in April, suddenly the Island landscape is lush and dabbed with color like a painter’s palette.
The Island is waking up early this year.
The illegal trail clearing in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest marks an unsettling low point in the long history of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation.