LISA’S ORDEAL
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I would love to talk about how Lisa Scannell, known to many as Lisa Ben David, is a dedicated member of the Martha’s Vineyard equine community, about how her passion and discipline is contagious, or how her knowledge of all things horse related is never ending. But none of this is news to anyone. Anyone who knows Lisa knows that’s she is a strong, driven individual who never cuts her students any slack in training them to be the best horse people that they can be.
WATER’S FINE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
So I hear the waters that I have gone swimming in every summer since I was an infant (Truman was president) are deemed “maybe polluted.” Ho hum. Not the first in a long line of indignities visited upon what I revere as the Galilee of bathing beaches. Here is a timeline of sorts:
MONUMENTAL MOVE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Our selectmen have voted to move the little-known war memorial from its somewhat obscure site at the triangle across from Whiting’s Pond to the town hall. I feel this is such a great idea I have volunteered my time and equipment to make the move.
EGREGIOUS ERROR
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Stunned! Heartbroken! Furious! These are but three of the emotions I was feeling after reading about the rejection of the Island’s application to the state for federal funds to assist members of our community because of a clerical error. That is $2 million lost.
BY THE BOOK
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I agree with the sentiments expressed in the Gazette by the owners of the Victorian Inn and more recently by Jane Dean regarding the inappropriateness of a tasteless and potentially noisy cafe located on South Water street.
Both sets of writers are however unfortunately misinformed as to the role the historic district commission was allowed by law to play in this decision.
CALL FOR LEADERSHIP
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
In any small town, there are cultural, political, social and economic factions that converge to give each town its own special personality. Within each faction, there are personal issues, public interests and many hidden agendas to deal with. These are the difficult and enormously complicated problems that make a small town so special. We all get to be involved. And we all get to be affected. It is the curse and the blessing of small-town living.