From Gazette editions of February, 1962:

Edgartown voters in an expeditious annual town meeting exorcised that old devil zoning with their usual robust enthusiasm, this time by defeating the project for a zoning committee with $1,000 for expenses, but otherwise went along with the recommendations of the advisory committee. The school remodeling and the new pumper for the fire department were the two big money items, and these went through easily.

I write as a detached observer who can witness how the remnants of Occupy mobs are still agitating and causing problems in our nation’s capital and at other locations, although in Washington they are probably regarded as a welcome distraction from failed current policy. If these people are eating, it is because they are being fed with goods bought, transported and prepared by others. Their housing consists of tents put up on public or private land, and, as far as most people can see, this constitutes criminal trespass.

The following letters were received by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission commenting on the plan by Vineyard Power to build a solar canopy over the parking lot at Cronig’s Market in Vineyard Haven.

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Forward Thinking

Please note I support the Cronig’s Solar Canopy Project. It is in a great location and great for our Island. We should applaud Vineyard Power for their forward-thinking approach.

Cynthia Aguilar

West Tisbury

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Out of Place

Do Vineyard voters really want a roundabout? Thanks to a grassroots effort, that question will appear on the ballot in all six Island towns this spring.

The results of what is effectively an Islandwide referendum on the controversial construction project slated for the blinker intersection in Oak Bluffs are nonbinding. So state and local officials will be free to move forward on the project regardless of whether the majority of citizens likes it or not.

Islanders love their ferries. They loved the stately old Naushon, a converted coastal steamer and the last of a line of truly elegant ferries to ply the Vineyard route, with her staterooms, leather banquettes and rounded bow that carved a smooth path through the rough chop of the Sound.

If you were out and about on the Island before the Super Bowl on Sunday, you saw ample evidence that you don’t need a ferry reservation to be a Patriots fan. A father and child dressed in matching Patriots jerseys wandered the aisles of the grocery store. A woman buying her latte sported a windbreaker with the team logo splashed across the back.