Recently I heard author-producer Vicki Riskin at the Gazette’s Tuesdays in the Newsroom.

I was not born on Martha’s Vineyard, but it was pretty close. The first time I visited the Island was when mother was pregnant with me more than 50 years ago.

When renewed efforts to ban mopeds in Oak Bluffs ran into legal barriers last year, town officials thought they finally had a solution: file a home rule petition in the state legislature.

It was an unexpected punch to the gut to find out yesterday that one of my oldest friends had died from cancer.

From the March 12, 1926 edition of the Gazette: