Editorials
Groundsel trees are in full bloom and thriving these days in the vast salt marshes that ring the many Island saltwater ponds, their gray-green silvery flowers leaning and nodding in the autumn winds that buffet the shorelines.
Call it new math, but the Dukes County Commission may have finally figured out how to get the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission under its thumb: make it bigger.
Roster Changes
Baseball is about many things — hot dogs and home runs, stolen bases and broken hearts, steamy nights and cold truths — and one of these is that baseball is ultimately a business.
By all accounts this has not been an unusually bad year for tick-borne illnesses on the Island. The dry cool summer may have helped — not just in keeping the tick population down, but in keeping hikers and gardeners more fully covered when venturing outdoors.
Fragrant autumn clematis tumbles from hedgerows, jolting us from our reverie with its honeysuckle perfume during walks about town and on nature trails.
For a long time it seemed like the Island was a battleground of sorts. On one side were big, deep-pocketed developers who stood to make millions by taking advantage of relatively cheap prices and abundant open land.