Boatline and Key Union Find Accord on Contract

Boatline and Key Union Find Accord on Contract

By MIKE SECCOMBE

After a standoff lasting four years, the Steamship Authority and one of its major maritime unions are expected to have a new workplace contract within a month.

Agreement between boat line senior managers and the Marine Officers Beneficial…

Boatline and Key Union Find Acccord on Contract

After a standoff lasting four years, the Steamship Authority and one of its major maritime unions are expected to have a new workplace contract within a month.

Agreement between boat line senior managers and the Marine Officers Beneficial Association, which represents some 230 unlicensed deck hands, was reached last Friday night, after two…

Island Plan Moves Ahead with Forums to Provoke More Public Involvement

Island Plan Moves Ahead with Forums to Provoke More Public Involvement

By IAN FEIN

Roughly 200 new homes are built on the Vineyard each year, many of them out of scale with surrounding neighborhoods or sprawling into once rural and open areas.

Eelgrass beds, which provide breeding habitat for…

No More Books: School Children Are All Smiles; Last Bell Rings

Out-of-control classrooms, last-laugh pranks and papers being thrown to the wind as students stampede through the double doors after the last bell: those are images that come to mind when thinking about the last day of school.

Ambitious Vision for Downtown Edgartown

Ambitious Vision for Downtown Edgartown

By MIKE SECCOMBE

The old Navigator restaurant in Edgartown – she ain’t what she used to be.

And for all the survivors of overpriced watered-down cocktails and stuffed quahaugs that landed in the stomach like a lead sinker on a codfish rig – that…

Oak Bluffs Voters Face Packed Agenda at Special Town Meeting

While special town meetings in late spring or early summer often are ho-hum affairs called to approve routine housekeeping matters and spending items at the end of the fiscal year, Tuesday’s meeting in Oak Bluffs could pack as much punch as the town’s annual town meeting in April.

The special town meeting is…