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Mary R. Fisher

Mary Rose Lynch was born on May 24, 1907, to Daniel and Octavia Lynch of Lowell.

A natural gas threat

American oil and natural gas companies claim that sufficient amounts of "unconventional" natural gas can be extracted by safely fracturing trapped gas a couple miles below the earth's surface.

Murphy

Lyme disease comes from deer ticks.

Fishermen fail to cast consideration

To the two guys who protested indignantly "Hey, we're just fishing!" Yes, I know it is tiresome to have ultra-rich summer people — who drive a 10-year-old Volvo because they can't afford a new one — touchy about people like you acting like they have an irrevocable right to use their land.

Thanks

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School's junior class would like to thank Karpet Kare for the generous donation of tile they installed on the counter of the football concession stand, which is located near the high school's football field.

Who gets rained on?

Your sports headline, "The rain falls 'On the just and on the unjust'" refers to Matthew 5:45 (''He .

No more years for Governor Patrick

Some have called for a referendum on the subject of wind factories planned in federal and state waters to surround the Vineyard.

Driver education needed

I think it is a serious mistake not to offer an in-school based driving school for our teenagers.

A fishing pier and an imperishable bond

About 32 years ago, my dad took my son down to the Oak Bluffs Steamship pier to fish.

TTOR management must be corrected

I've sent this letter to Andrew Kendall, president of The Trustees of Reservations.

Duncan Kreamer

Duncan Kreamer, 92, died in Phoenix, Maryland, on October 8.

Meredith J. Aldrich

Life-long educator Meredith Jane Aldrich, founder of Children's Hours School in Geneva, N.

Darlington

Robert "Bob" Darlington died on Monday, October 11, at home in Oak Bluffs.

Normand M. Ponte

Normand Machado Ponte of Oak Bluffs died October 6, at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital after a brief illness.

Services Thursday for Mary R. Fisher, who lived more than a century

Mary Rose Fisher, 103, of Edgartown died Sunday, October 10, 2010 at Windemere Nursing Home.

The moment for improving tolerance

To the Editor:I have sent this letter to Martha's Vineyard Regional School District's superintendent's office.

Beer and wine licenses will multiply

To the Editor:During the debate over alcohol in Tisbury, some of us raised concerns about the very high number of licenses that selectmen could potentially grant.

A partnership for housing

This past month four Island families were awarded the dream of affordable homeownership in Tisbury on Lambert's Cove Road.