It’s 7 a.m. on a warm summer morning and the smell of bacon wafts out the side door of 7a Foods. Chef and owner Dan Sauer stands in front of the stove in jeans, making breakfast sandwich after breakfast sandwich.

Anyone who wants to know about Wayne Lamson quickly runs across the story about how he started with the ferry service as a ticket seller in Woods Hole, during the summers when he attended college.

Gov. Charlie Baker’s decision to scale back the state budget dealt a blow to environmental and social service programs on the Vineyard, including shellfish propagation and help for the homeless.

Jack Koontz wrote On the Line, a fishing column for the Gazette, for nearly a decade in the late 1970s and 1980s.

From the Cottagers’ Corner column in the July 1969 editions of the Vineyard Gazette by Dorothy West.