Opinion
What Martha’s Vineyard do you live on?
From Gazette editions of April, 1960:
Chappy Shadow Walk
I took a stroll this morning, before the sun would shine,
down Cape Pogue Ave to Chappy Road, and met a good friend of mine.
Across Dike Bridge and to the beach, we stopped a while to rest,
and each time I turned to look for him, he was always to the west.
We walked along in silence, but I had a lot to say,
past Poucha Pond along the shore until we reached Katama Bay.
From a 1967 Gazette column of reminiscences by Joseph Chase Allen:
The anecdotes of the early 1900s would constitute a volume second to none. Times and customs being far different from those of the present day, some of these are unique indeed.
Roses for the Chief
She stepped into the job sixteen years ago, quietly making history as the first woman police chief on the Vineyard. And this week, just as quietly, Beth Toomey retired from the job.
Political Notebook
Super Tuesday kicked off the Island political season this week, and the four annual town meetings in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and West Tisbury were notable for their themes of economy and tight purse strings in these financially straitened times.