Opinion
After dinner, I stepped outside onto the smallporch that leads off from my kitchen. I draped the black cover back onto the grill and stood for a moment by the railing. It was nighttime, but the haze of the overcast evening trapped a dim gray light over the house. The kitchen light behind me cast a shadow over the garage. Not until I moved my arm back and forth did I realize that the shadow was me, looking like a hulking giant. I began to play with my projection by lifting and lowering my arms, which looked
Every two years, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission reviews its standards and criteria for developments of regional impact — commonly referred to as the DRI checklist. This is the list of thresholds that delineate which development applications towns must refer to the MVC for possible DRI review prior to towns approving or denying the applications. Last week, the commission released its proposed revisions to the current checklist and invites public comment before adopting the changes.
These proposals come out of an in-depth review of the checklist that started last year.
Forever in our memories
Will be the house once surrounded by trees
Remember the day in 1970
Dad built a home for his young family
Where no other houses could be found
Just Aunt Louise’s who was always around
A place for his family to live until grown
A place where memories would be sown
A time when the neighborhood was good
A time when we knew where our home stood
A time when dad was still alive
A time when dad could still drive
A time when mom was happy and free
Our U.S. election process is about as sophisticated as a high school’s. The way it now operates, we the people are not given a choice in terms of leadership abilities but rather chicanery skills. Each campaign may start out to educate and inform but in the end the candidates are dragged down into the mud where they are forced to stay alive by throwing at each other handfuls of what they’re stuck in, while lying, obfuscating, misrepresenting and generally messing with our minds. Is this a way to elect someone to lead or represent us?
The H.M.S. Bounty which sank in the waters off Cape Hatteras during Hurricane Sandy on Monday, was an occasional visitor to the Vineyard. When she was home ported in Fall River in the 1990s, she made a number of 40-mile trips to Vineyard Haven, where she would spend the weekend tied up at the Tisbury Wharf, her gangway lowered to allow sailors of all ages aboard.
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of Nov. 1966:
In a letter to Gov. Volpe this week, Rep. Benjamin C. Mayhew Jr. of the Vineyard made clear his opposition to reducing the number of members in the state House of Representatives from 240 to 160, as has been called for in an initiative petition. Such a reduction would in all likelihood eliminate not only Dukes County’s individual representation in the legislature but also Nantucket’s as well.