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SSA Supports New Ferry Plan
Boat Line Managers Recommend Private Firm for High-Speed, Year-Round
Service Between New Bedford and Vineyard
By...
Texas Pollsters Open Oak Bluffs Campaign on MVC Withdrawal
By JULIA WELLS
Oak Bluffs voters began receiving calls this week from a Texas
polling...
Report Calls for Changes to Strengthen Future Role of Island
Planning Agency
By JULIA WELLS
Overhaul the review process for developments of...
Five years ago, Kim Angell found herself one step away from being a
welfare mom.
"My husband disappeared. I had no job, three children under
the...
War with Iraq was the top subject in class and on the minds of
regional high school students and teachers on Wednesday. Close to 600
students...
Oak Bluffs Police Receive Overtime Pay
By CHRIS BURRELL
Oak Bluffs police officers are about to receive the kind of windfall
most employees only...
Iraq Countdown Separates Young Vineyard Family
By MANDY LOCKE
Seventeen hours before Jared Meader joined his comrades in Western
Massachusetts,...
Student Protest Against Iraq War Triggers Suspensions in Clash with
Administration
A peaceful student protest against war in Iraq bubbled into a...
Island Education Leaders Fear Budget Cut Layoffs
By CHRIS BURRELL
Bracing for the possibility of even deeper cuts to state aid for
schools,...
MVC Election Wins Approval
State House Compromise Clears Path for Special Vote in May on a
Petition in Oak Bluffs to Secede from Commission
By...
The snow-covered pasture is a soft, white-on-white expanse curving under a cold, gray sky. Outside Pam Goff's old Chilmark barn, five black-faced,...
Oak Bluffs Home Rule Petition Inspires Hot Debate in Hearing Hastily
Convened by Legislature
By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer
BOSTON -...