Editorials
As if a whiff of fall in the air wasn’t enough, the unexpected resignation last week of regional high school principal Gil Traverso put summer officially on notice.
Every Thursday night when the Vineyard Gazette’s printing press gears up for its weekly performance, the low rumble and shake reaches the newsroom upstairs like an approaching squall.
A gauzy blanket of heat settled over the Island last week and then a little like the latest round of house guests, decided to stay for awhile.
To understand just how outdated is the Massachusetts Public Records law, consider that it was enacted the same year Xerox introduced the Alto.
The call came on a Friday afternoon, the day before the Fourth of July. A Jeep had caught fire on Beach Road along the crowded Joseph Sylvia State Beach.
