The Cost of Wind

At a time when sharply rising oil prices are rippling through the economy — pushing up the price of a multitude of commodities, from gasoline to meat to electricity — the idea of generating power right in the backyard through renewable sources such as the wind grows even more attractive for homeowners.

Hello, June

Learning the Ropes

Training young men and women in maritime skills would seem to be a natural and logical endeavor on an Island seven miles out to sea.

Yet while the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School has offered courses in culinary arts, horticulture, automobile service and repair and carpentry, the school has not offered comparable maritime courses.

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.

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.

Improving County Government

In the end, after a laborious and sometimes painful process, the Dukes County Charter Study Commission has recommended relatively little change in county government.

The commission’s conclusions match the gut feeling that many Island residents held at the start of the study: that the failings of the existing county government have owed far more to the members of that government than to its structure.