Editorials
Indian summer days stretched on this year as if they would have no end: late season swimming practically bumped into early season scalloping but finally the natural world has come to its senses. The last of the leaves blew down early this week with a ferocious wind driven down from Canada on bitterly cold air.
Fifty years ago today, an unspeakable tragedy occurred, one that left a generation scarred with memories of where they were when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated.
Members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) sent a strong message about their desire for change last week, voting by a wide margin to elect Tobias Vanderhoop as the new chairman of the tribal council.
The only real surprise in the announcement from tribal chairman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais this week that the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) intends to move forward with gaming on the Vineyard was in the way the news was delivered.
The Patrick administration announced a program late last week to make small business loans available to fishermen who have been hurt by the failure of the groundfishing industry.
Both federal and state law require that public schools provide special education to students with disabilities, a mandate that grows more costly each year. Next week, the All-Island School Committee will consider a budget for Islandwide shared services that is twenty one per cent higher than last year’s, almost entirely due to higher costs and lower federal subsidies for these programs.