In early August I accepted a freelance proofreading job at a rate that could generously be called less than desirable. The job comes with flexible hours, and I am expected to put in 35 to 40 of them in a given week. If you have never worked as a proofreader, this amounts to 35 to 40 hours a week of mind-numbing (though not mindless), slow-moving, eye-blurring work. Best-case-scenario? Hardly. But I finished graduate school in May, and have now spent three months among the ranks of those looking for full-time employment.
Of all the quirks that define the Gazette — the seven-column broadsheet, black and white photography, house style that bows to no one — the skyline may be the most often overlooked. Prominent of placement and yet remarkably easy to pass over, it sails above the banner where most papers these days put reefers — those short blurbs, sometimes with a small image, that tease a story inside.
Della L. Brown Hardman Was Educator, Gazette Columnist
By ALEXIS TONTI
Della Louise Brown Hardman, the artist and educator who enriched the Vineyard community as much by her gentle and gracious presence as by her far-reaching volunteerism, died Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital following a brief heart-related illness. She was 83.
Tisbury voters dispatched with special town meeting in one hour Tuesday night, endorsing the creation of a town dog park, the restoration of the hi
Annual Town Meeting Set for Next Week in Tisbury
By ALEXIS TONTI
For months Tisbury selectmen and Steamship Authority officials have sparred over how to use revenue collected through the passenger embarkation fee - now it is town residents' turn to have their say in the matter.
As part of the 27-article town meeting warrant, Vineyard Haven voters will decide next week whether to use that money to buy a $300,000 pumper truck for the fire department and a $30,000 cruiser for the police department.