Opinion
From the August 3, 1934 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Peter J. Taeger, Oak Bluffs contractor and builder, sounds another cheering note with reference to the business come-back that the Vineyard is staging.
The Dukes County Commission appoints the Island’s representative to the Steamship Authority Board of Governors.
I recently read a (no longer) friend’s Facebook post, a meme which said roughly: “Last year immigrants sent X amount of money to their home countries while their children received free education, school lunch and free health care.”
We have a United States president who is 79. Our past president is 82. I am almost 73. All of us are old. Being older in the United States now is not unusual. Old age has become a sort of “chronic condition” in my lifetime.
This summer’s heightened public interest in ticks, and the associated illnesses, was reflected by a recent article in the Vineyard Gazette.
From the July 26, 1923 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Two old shipmates had a fine “gam” the other day out in Dartmouth. They had not seen one another since they parted in New Bedford sixty years ago.