udos to the state’s highway department for making our roads look so beautiful this summer. Your hard work is very much appreciated.

After seeing an article about a proposed development on the Vineyard, I felt inspired to comment from the perspective of someone who has come to the Island as a mostly summer visitor beginning in the mid 1960s.

I recently suffered a major cardiac event, referred to as a “widow maker” and was very fortunate to survive the event.

On Friday, Sept. 12, there was a free luncheon put on by Buster Giordano and his hard-working family at Giordano’s Restaurant for all Island military veterans and their spouses.

In a first of hopefully many for the new ownership of the Square Rigger restaurant in Edgartown, they created a wedding dinner reception on Monday, Sept. 8 that out-performed anything we could have asked for.

It is easy for any one of us to drive by and see some car out of place and think, “I wonder what this is all about, oh well I have to get going.”