As residents of Chilmark, we were inconvenienced by the closure of South Road last week during President Obama’s vacation. I would be very interested to see an article appear in the Gazette about the actual economic impact on the up-Island businesses due to the road closure. This is important information that should be gathered, interpreted and published for everyone to see. I suspect the President’s visit this year severely affected some of our local businesses.</p>
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
As residents of Chilmark, we were inconvenienced by the closure of South Road last week during President Obama’s vacation. I would be very interested to see an article appear in the Gazette about the actual economic impact on the up-Island businesses due to the road closure. This is important information that should be gathered, interpreted and published for everyone to see. I suspect the President’s visit this year severely affected some of our local businesses.
Nancy Gould, Chilmark
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Congratulations to the
Richard Barbieri Oak BluffsCongratulations to the Gazette for doing exactly what Ms. Gould asked for, an assessment of the presidential visit's impact, and on its front page. Sorry to hear that some Chilmarkers were "inconvenienced" by the President's visit. Next time I guess we should go back to electing presidents with family compounds on the water in Kennebunkport, 668-acre California ranches, or 1500-acre Texas ranches. Then the poor ordinary Chilmarker (average 2011 property value $1.5 million) won't have to be inconvenienced by an urbanite seeking a getaway from the heaviest responsibilities in the world.
I don't own any property in
Katherine TisburyI don't own any property in Chilmark, or on the Vineyard, and I was inconvenienced by the closure.
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