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
March 10, 2006
Survey Compares Terms of Contracts
Town Challenges Legality of High-Priced Contracts
By JAMES KINSELLA Gazette Senior Writer
Tisbury town officials are challenging the legality of multi-year contracts negotiated with the two people who supervise the Tisbury Water Works and Oak Bluffs Water District systems.
The officials also have expressed concern about the $100,000 salaries…
Town Challenges Legality of High-Priced Contracts
Town Challenges Legality of High-Priced Contracts
By JAMES KINSELLA Gazette Senior Writer
Tisbury town officials are challenging the legality of multi-year contracts negotiated with the two people who supervise the Tisbury Water Works and Oak Bluffs Water District systems.
The officials also have expressed concern about the $100,000 salaries…
Town Challenges Legality of High-Priced C
Town Challenges Legality of High-Priced Contracts
By JAMES KINSELLA Gazette Senior Writer
Tisbury town officials are challenging the legality of multi-year contracts negotiated with the two people who supervise the Tisbury Water Works and Oak Bluffs Water District systems.
The officials also have expressed concern about the $100,000 salaries…
Skipper Manter Fits Many Roles in West Tisbury
Skipper Manter Fits Many Roles in West Tisbury
By IAN FEIN
Second in a series of profiles leading up to the West Tisbury town election.
Jeffrey (Skipper) Manter spent most of his childhood watching his family serve the town of West Tisbury.
His grandfather was a selectman…
Oak Bluffs Commission Awards Permit for SSA Terminal Project
After years of planning, discussion and often heated debate, the Oak Bluffs conservation commission Tuesday unanimously endorsed the $10 million Steamship Authority plan to expand and improve the ferry terminal on Sea View avenue.
Commission members voted 4-0 to approve an order of conditions, which is the permit required under the Massachusetts wetlands…
Middle Line Worries Center on Funding, Potential Conflicts
Middle Line Worries Center on Funding, Potential Conflicts
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
The Chilmark selectmen this week took up an array of concerns relating to the Island Housing Trust’s bid to build the town-sponsored Middle Line Road affordable housing project.
Among the legal questions under discussion were those relating…
Housing Bank Plan Wins Key Legislative Support
Housing Bank Plan Wins Key Legislative Support
By IAN FEIN
The proposed Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank picked up key support on Beacon Hill this week, where the legislative committee that reviewed the bill this winter voted unanimously to award it a favorable recommendation.
Hospital Posts Financial Gains
An increase in the number of primary care physicians employed at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital is improving its financial performance, according to the chief executive officer.
Success Brings Growing Pains for Independent Film Festival
Amid the stacks of DVDs and under the piles of papers, press photos and programs, the sixth annual Martha’s Vineyard Independent Film Festival is coming together.
Slowly.
“This is the crunch time, for sure,” festival founder and director Thomas Bena says one afternoon last week from the festival headquarters in North…
Boatline Reports Profit Drop in 2005
The Steamship Authority continued to make money last year, though not as much as boat line managers anticipated. Unaudited numbers show that the SSA, beset by rising fuel costs and falling passenger traffic, brought in $1,491,957 in operating income in 2005 – a decrease of about $1.3 million from the prior year, and about $2.6…
