Opinion
The Beginning
From Gazette editions of June, 1959:
Living on the Island has many benefits. One such benefit is all the job opportunities. Island teenagers have such a variety of choices for summer work. We don’t realize how lucky we are. Anywhere else jobs for teenagers would need to be close by. Here, even if it is in another town, it is still close. As much as we complain about summer on the Island, about summer traffic and tourists, there is an up side to summer. Remember to take advantage of it.
— Kristen Parece, editor
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I Feel Lucky
Jay Segredo, one of the main characters in my novel The Mud of the Place, is a gay man who grew up on Martha’s Vineyard but lived off-Island for two decades. Though close to his family, he’s never come out to any of them, and when he moves back to the Vineyard, where everybody knows who you’re related to and where your car was parked night before last, his secret overwhelms his good sense and he starts making stupid mistakes.
Reading the Fine Print
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The proposed distributed antenna system (DAS), to improve wireless and public service telecommunications up-Island, has many facets to it, as I have learned over the past year since I inherited West Tisbury’s place on the tri-town DAS committee.
Providing accurate information to the public on such a complex issue is never easy, and that process has just begun. With that in mind, I would like to offer some clarifications.
No Longer Golden Pond
Sengekontacket Pond is in trouble, but not from bacterial contamination, making the state-mandated summer closures on the pond, now in their second year, seem like a bureaucratic farce.
ROAD RAGE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette: