Letters To The Editor

Letters to the Editor

STAY DRY

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

We are writing to express our strong conviction regarding the so-called beer and wine issue in Vineyard Haven. Our conviction grows out of a good many years of experience and observation in a considerable number of communities where we have been associated.

 

 

 

BAIT AND SWITCH

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

On May 10, 2010, National Grid filed its request with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities for approval of two agreements with Cape Wind. The per kilowatt hour cost proposed by National Grid is 20.7 cents escalating at 3.5 per cent for 15 years, when it will be 33.5 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh).

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PANTRY WRAP

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The Island Food Pantry has had anther record year, including a record 174 visits in one week in March, a record income of $81,235 and a record $70,096 in food expenditures.

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Clarifying the Record

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The following is a copy of a letter sent to state historic preservation officers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and New York from the chairman of the National Advisory Council on Historic Preservation:

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ATTEMPTED RESCUE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

At 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 24, my wife, Lauren Crosbie, called me on my cell phone. She was upset and proceeded to describe to me the seal that she and her friend Diane Levin had come across on a beach up-Island. The seal was tangled in some sort of a mat or rug and was in dire straits. It was dying and the surf was pounding.

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