Tag Archives: Martha’s Vineyard Times

Potluck

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Apologies for long silence — work does tend to get in the way of life, even when you basically like what you do for a living. Two of the three jobs I’ve had in since mid-December were delivered either on … Continue reading →

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Wandering Waylon is featured in a story in the new Martha’s Vineyard Times, along with a lovely photo by Betsy of Waylon and Kevin.

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis | 1 Comment

Blogmanay

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

To close out the old year, WordPress, the host of this blog, kindly e-mailed me an annual report. It’s so bling-intensive that it’s crashed or stalled Firefox every time I’ve tried to open it, but still, I appreciate the thought. … Continue reading →

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It Isn’t Nice

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Last Friday’s Vineyard Gazette carried an op-ed about the roundabout by Dan Greenbaum, a retired transportation consultant who now lives in Chilmark. Mr. Greenbaum is a voting member of the Martha’s Vineyard Joint Transportation Committee, an advisory group that helped … Continue reading →

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Slantwise

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

As far as slants go, the Leaning Tower of Pisa has nothing on Nelson Sigelman’s coverage of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation’s suit against Ben Ramsey and Nisa Counter. The latest installment was posted yesterday on the Martha’s Vineyard Times website. … Continue reading →

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Friends

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Politics on Martha’s Vineyard, as in any small town or close-knit neighborhood, are not only local but personal — sometimes intensely personal. It’s not quite true that “everybody knows everybody,” but if you’ve been around a couple of decades or … Continue reading →

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Goofs Don’t Have to Be Forever

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

In our last installment about the roundabout proposed for the blinker intersection, things were looking pretty bleak for the home team. Not that the project’s proponents were looking especially good: at around 11 p.m. on October 6, after yet another … Continue reading →

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Belated 10th Anniversary

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

So I’m three days late blogging the tenth anniversary of 9/11. So what. 9/11 is going to be around for a while, despite the best attempts of the news media to blather it to death. If the rest of us … Continue reading →

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How the Story Ended . . .

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Earlier this summer I copyedited a book about the Sacco-Vanzetti case. I’d known the basics for many years. In 1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of killing two men during a 1920 payroll robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. … Continue reading →

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Defense Fund Established for Ben & Nisa

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

From the Seasonally Occupied Territories has been covering Ben Ramsey and Nisa Counter’s fight to defend their land against the claim of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation (SMF), a local conservation group. Apart from Facebook, it’s the only public source of … Continue reading →

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