Sunday, May 18, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Enhance the community

We live and work in Vineyard Haven, and we are in support of beer and wine.

Our town needs our help

As spring fills the air with the new arrival of life and energy, Vineyard Haven is calling for our help.

Safe to walk downtown

I am a sixth grade student living in California who comes to Martha's Vineyard every summer.

The end of tranquility

To the Editor: If the citizens of Tisbury open the door to alcohol sales even a tiny crack, we invite nothing less than the demise of 300 years of tranquility.

The economics of it for businesses

I don't enjoy being stirred into the same pot as some landlords that a few of the Letters to the Editor have portrayed in the last few weeks.

Negative effect

If you have dined out in Vineyard Haven in the past eight years, then we have probably met.

Saved from certain death

I would like to thank with all my heart the two brave men that saved my small dog from certain death last Sunday, April 11.

The new hospital thanks Islanders

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who joined us on Saturday evening and throughout the day on Sunday, for making our community's dream of a new hospital come true.

No to Tisbury Marketplace

This is a copy of a letter to the Martha's Vineyard Commission.

Cruel and unnecessary

In the last few weeks, I watched my very healthy three-year-old cat become more and more despondent and most assuredly ill.

A life saved

We are fortunate to have public servants who are compassionate and vigilant, as they perform their daily duties for the community, eager to risk life and limb, reluctant to take credit, even in the case of saving a life.

Vote no on beer/wine

Two of the qualities of life in our community in Vineyard Haven will be affirmed by voting no on Article 1, to limit the sale of alcohol in the town of Tisbury, on April 27 – our grandchildren and "getting away from it all.

A cause dear to her

Thanks to all who donated their time, services, words, song, and goods for the wonderful memorial and celebration event for Penelope Dickens.

Huge success

I have to say thank you, thank you, and thank you to all the people who helped to make the Celebrity Waiters Pasta Dinner at the Federated Church, for the benefit of the Haiti Peace Quilts project, such a huge success.

Grateful

Last weekend, a group of spirited tennis players from across the Island came together to help raise money to purchase tennis uniforms for the boys and girls high school tennis teams.

Hearty congratulations

Clearly the nation is opening a new chapter in providing health care for most all of its citizens.

Vineyard Haven is already busy

As a longtime seasonal resident (12 summers) I would like to express my strong disapproval of the proposed wine-and-beer licensing in Vineyard Haven.

A nation betrayed

It was another sad day for our nation when the Democratic Party passed the health bill over the objections of the people and without a proper consensus between the parties.

An honor

I am writing to thank you for your support of the Island Spelling Bee.

What really happened

Since Steve Myrick wrote an article last week, playing loose and free with comments on the salary of the Oak Bluffs town clerk ("Oak Bluffs voters face overrides, $24.