Clumsy and costly
There is no apparent link between the Steamship Authority's demand that Ralph Packer's Tisbury Towing get a license to transport freight to and from Martha's Vineyard with its tugs and barges and the boatline's...
Despite the weather, thanks
To the Editor:
While the weather hampered some well-laid plans for Martha's Vineyard's Last Night First Day celebration, we would like to recognize the role played by The Martha's Vineyard Times calendar section in meticulously...
Question 2 will work
To the Editor:
As Question 2 is being implemented across the state, opponents just can't resist clamoring that the new law reducing penalties for adult possession of an ounce or less of marijuana will somehow...
Dour ditty
To the Editor:
Here's an interesting little song I found in my old vinyl albums last week. The song was sung by the Kingston Trio and written by Sheldon Harnick in 1958. Save for the...
Guns and sneakers
To the Editor:
The outgoing, twice-elected Bush/Cheney administration should be feted for its strong support of Israel, America's most reliable ally in the Middle East. Also, for reversing the old Eisenhower/Republican Middle East policy of...
Fisheries mis-management
To the Editor:
Are the seiners going to steal your bait in 2009?
They will if new regulations being proposed by the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries are approved.
Right now the DMF is proposing to allow...
Emergency training for school personnel
To the Editor:
On January 6 and 7, staff from the Martha's Vineyard Public Schools and various town officials participated in a two-day Island-wide school emergency training session presented by Graham Campbell of the Massachusetts...
Bike paths will mean longer ferry lines
To the Editor:
The December 31 Martha's Vineyard Times article about the Chappy bike path controversy might lead the reader to believe that my comments, as printed, suggest that I would prefer to exclude, or...
A story and a lesson
To the Editor:
One of my Christmas cards was returned to me today marked "Undeliverable." Having known the lady to whom the card had been addressed, I can only assume that she was gone. Her...
Our incarcerated guests
Every review of the vital services provided the community at the Dukes County Jail and House of Correction revives the community debate over whether and when to replace and, almost certainly, expand the ancient...
Gotta shop
Until a few years ago, we worried that Islanders had got into the habit of shopping at the Hyannis Mall or BJs or the other mainland big box stores, especially for Christmas. Supporting this...
Misleading
To the Editor:
The title of your Martha's Vineyard Commission energy policy article (on page 6 of your December 24 issue) misleads your readers. Admittedly, it costs about five percent more to correctly construct a...
State of our state
To the Editor:
Each member in our fifth grade class is working on a project called "Parade of States." We are responsible for gathering as much information about a state as we can to help...
Bad timing
To the Editor:
I find it absolutely ridiculous that an article was placed beforehand in the paper about the compliance checks.
It's just like putting out a warning to all liquor stores in advance. So...
Inaccessibility
To the Editor:
I was incarcerated in an airtight enclosure of approximately two an a half feet by four feet and several inches on Saturday, December 13, in Edgartown's Old Whaling Church. I was hoping...
Many helpers
To the Editor:
I would sincerely like to thank everyone who helped me the night of December 19, after I suffered a heart attack under the Christmas tree at my dear friend Jaime Hamlin's annual...
Shoveling needed
To the Editor:
Five days following last Wednesday's snowfall, little has been done by the Edgartown Highway Department to make sidewalks passable, aside from a few chosen places. Most of the Main Street walkways, as...
Thinking outside the bubble
There's been a surreal quality to all this past year's news of economic disasters. The most difficult idea for us to accept on the Island, I think, is that perhaps the value of real...
Change on the way
In the bowels of The Martha's Vineyard Times' techno center, things are humming. Change is on the way at mvtimes.com. In the nearly two decades that the newspaper has published a web site, it's...
Our 2009 to-do, no, must-do list
For several years, in the last newspaper of each year, we've asked Island leaders to write about the year ending and the one impending. This year, Nelson Sigelman, The Martha's Vineyard Times managing editor,...