I write to thank the staff of the Vineyard Haven Post Office for their service and wish them a happy holiday season.

A huge thank you to the entire Island community for your overwhelming support of our holiday concert this past weekend.

Living on the Vineyard provides a front-row seat to a panorama of the constantly changing environs. There are parts of the country where these differences are a bit less apparent.

The wind, when it decides to blow, may be free, but turning it into electricity is very expensive.

We are elderly folks in Vineyard Haven and attended the selectmen’s meeting Dec. 9 and just wanted to make a couple of comments.

The time of year has arrived when each town government begins preparing its fiscal 2016 budget for its annual town meetings.