Dylan Thomas
The birds of the winged trees flying my name Above the farms and the white horses I rose in rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. – Dylan Thomas
May 17, 2002
Boatline Issues Divide Board
Boatline Issues Divide Board Future of Once Proposed Parking Lot Property Triggers Sharp Debate; New Bedford Suit Runs Up Big Legal Bills By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer NANTUCKET – An old skeleton tumbled out of the closet yesterday when Steamship Authority governors took up the thorny question of selling the Blacksmith Shop Road property…
Tisbury Police Ask Expansion
Tisbury Police Ask Expansion
Acting Chief Presents Selectmen With Detailed Proposal to Boost Number of Uniformed Officers By Three Full-Time Slots
By JOSHUA SABATINI
Kriner Cash Is Choice for Top Virginia Post
School board members in Charlottesville, Va., want Dr. Kriner Cash to be their next school superintendent, and are negotiating right now to see if they can convince the leader of the Vineyard school system to head south.
MVC Votes to Rescind District Designation for Chappaquiddick
MVC Votes to Rescind District Designation for Chappaquiddick
By MANDY LOCKE
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission officially closed a year-long chapter for the residents of Chappaquiddick last night, voting to rescind the island’s designation as a district of critical planning concern (DCPC).
The vote ended the one-year building moratorium three…
Good Samaritans: Islanders Travel by Angel Flight for Health Care
From thousands of feet above the blue-green waters of Nantucket Sound, reality seems to wait below. Inside the cabin of the 1977 single-engine plane, Mike is the tough-talking washashore, piloting his Skylane 182 from the Vineyard to Hyannis. Joe, the co-pilot, is an Islander through and through, with a war story for every patch of…
Voters Approve Aquinnah Budget; School Money Faces Override Vote
Voters Approve Aquinnah Budget; School Money Faces Override Vote
By JOSHUA SABATINI
At a town meeting marked by lengthy debate and intermittent confusion, Aquinnah voters approved a $1.78 million general operating budget and agreed to put $271,000 of the budget for the elementary school to a Proposition 2 1/2 override vote before…
Former Tisbury Selectman Gets Jail Term in Drunk Driving, Vehicular Homicide Case
Former Tisbury selectman A. Kirk Briggs was convicted of drunk driving and vehicular homicide yesterday in Edgartown District Court and sentenced to 21 months in the Dukes County jail.
