Opinion
The unmentionable odor that wafts from Ocean Park from time to time is being confronted by the town of Oak Bluffs. Whatever it is that is seeping to the surface, the state Department of Environmental Protection is not amused. Recently, wastewater commission chairman Hans von Steiger was quoted in the Gazette as saying, “Remember we are dealing with below-ground here. We can guess, but we don’t know what’s down there.”
This time of year gets crazy. I think the whole true meaning of Christmas has been forgotten. This Black Friday was even more crazy than in the past. People were killed! It’s disgusting that for the greed of a deal on a gift, a Wal Mart employee lost his life. Considering our economic issues, it is risky to be spending so much money. Christmas isn’t about presents, but it sure seems so. Before Thanksgiving, Christmas commercials about sales are playing. Christmas has become a commercial holiday.
Fisheries management in New England is broken and here is just one small example of one of its glaring faults.
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I was crushed to hear that David Flanders died over Thanksgiving. He was one of my heroes. Not only a man of honor, but the best baseball player Chilmark ever had. He had a try-out with the Boston Red Sox but turned down a lucrative career to play summer ball on the Vineyard. His home-run powers were legendary — swatting towering fly balls that disappeared forever in the pines at Toomey’s Field.
ROOM FOR ALL
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Round and Round
From the Gazette editions of December, 1983: