The Schifter house move presents a sobering contradiction. The goal is to save a property from the effects of climate change, but the means to this end is leaving a horrendous carbon footprint.

A big summer home used to be 5,000 square feet. Now a big summer home is 20,000 square feet. Where are we headed?

Regarding All Clear (a Gazette Chronicle), what a fascinating piece of Island (and social) history!

I have been a full-time washashore for a year now, and an active member of the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club since August.

Regarding the Gazette story of March 22 headlined: “Have Host Will Travel, Ticks And Deer Thrive On Vineyard.”The Vineyard is famous for many things, one being ticks.

Many remember the last time the small (west) entrance to Vineyard Haven harbor closed in 1997, and you could smell the decay far and wide. The small entrance is nearly closed again and in desperate need of dredging. The entrance is environmentally vital to water circulation and a clean harbor. It is also imperative to keep open for safety, so small boats and children can use this back channel entrance and avoid the commercial ferry channel.

The recent article by Sara Brown (Vineyard Gazette, March 22) illustrates clearly a few problems apparent in our boat line service. In their effort to provide “a little more capacity,” the addition of the vessel Island Home (second vessel of this name) has shown the fallacy of attempting to use a west coast design in Atlantic waters