Editorials
White Flower Island
No Overtime for Tri-Town Resolution
The magnificent victory of the Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals this week had us talking about hockey and ice skating, and the conversation turned as these things will to the question of whether it is easier to skate forwards or backwards. This, it seems, is a matter of opinion, some of which can get quite vehement. Is it a function of the kind of skating you do or how you were trained? Or is there a right-brain, left-brain predisposition at work?
Memo to Oak Bluffs: Action Plan Needed
Effective governing, like almost everything else in life, begins with good intentions. But success ultimately rests on good actions.
Commencement 2011
Graduating seniors at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will march down the aisle of the historic Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, and though the forecast is iffy, with luck they will walk between storms. No matter the weather. These students, like those at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, who graduated with the sun shining on them last weekend, are used to change.
Handing Off for Life
There will be burgers, pancakes and silly stunts — people wearing crazy hats, walking backwards, eating s’mores and collecting playing cards around the track of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, hoping for a winning hand by lap five. It is the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, and the poker run lap is apt, for every day involves high stakes when you find yourself in the casino of cancer.
Broadcast from Oak Bluffs
Listen to the voters in Oak Bluffs; their collective voice is loud and clear. At the annual town election in April they swept two longtime incumbent selectmen out of office and voted in two newcomers. At a special town election last week they broadcast a forceful message about their desire to curb spending and balance the town budget in real time, rejecting by a wide margin two questions that would have allowed the town to exceed the state law that caps annual property tax increases at two and a half per cent.