Another Impact of Chronic Lyme Disease May Be Mental, Island Psychiatrist Says

Ask someone to recite the symptoms of Lyme disease, and you'll
probably hear all the classic signs: bull's eye rash, fever and
aching joints.

But what about depression, memory loss and other cognitive
disorders?

Surprisingly, Lyme disease - in its chronic form - can
also be the culprit for a host of psychiatric problems in anywhere from
15 to 40 per cent of cases.

A Sense of Contentment, Pride When Mabel Becomes Riverboat

CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. - The Mabel made it.

They pulled away from the Coastwise Packet Wharf in Vineyard Haven on Friday, June 13, their oars waggling a bit uncertainly in the air and in the water. Seven days later - late on Friday afternoon - they put the bow of their boat on the shore of a cove some 30 miles north of Manhattan and dropped themselves a bit unsteadily onto hard sand shaded by weeping willows at a park on the Hudson River.

Now Showing in Oak Bluffs: the Millennium

Daily fast ferry service between Oak Bluffs and Quonset Point, R.I.
begins today. Yesterday the founder of the service, Charles A. Donadio
Jr., told a crowd at the Oak Bluffs dock anyone using his new ferry
service will cut hours off their car trip to and from the Island. And at
a cost of $24 per adult, they'll save money.

How Two Islands View Boat Line

How Two Islands View Boat Line

It Threatens to Become an Issue: Nantucket Is Feeling Isolated,
After Long Run of Unity with the Vineyard

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Fresh fault lines at the Steamship Authority these days may threaten
to undermine the traditional bedrock of unity between the Vineyard and
Nantucket.

The 43-year-old public boat line is chartered to provide dependable
year-round ferry service to the two Islands.

Michael Barnes: CDs, Concerts Are in the Mix Aboveground

CDs, Concerts Are in the Mix Aboveground

By CHRIS BURRELL

When Mike Mackey informed his boss Wednesday that he was going to a
Foo Fighters concert and would be late to work the next day, he probably
knew he wasn't going out on a limb.

At most any other workplace, such a declaration might brand the
employee a slacker, but at Aboveground Records in Edgartown, store owner
Michael Barnes lives - and works - by a whole different set
of standards.

"That's okay," he told his 19-year-old staffer.
"We support the rock."

Marguerite A. Bergstrom Left Her Mark on Island Hospitality, Housing and Politics and

Marguerite A. Bergstrom Left Her Mark on Island Hospitality, Housing
and Politics

By MANDY LOCKE

Marguerite A. Bergstrom, a celebrated Island humanitarian, died in
her Wing Road home Tuesday at the age of 81.

Better known by those who loved her as Bergie, Ms. Bergstrom was a
war veteran, a retired nurse and hospital administrator, former
innkeeper, veteran Tisbury official, affordable housing champion and
prominent church leader.

Fire Safety Ratings Slide to a New Low, Insurance Costs Up

Fire Safety Ratings Slide to a New Low, Insurance Costs Up

By MANDY LOCKE

As insurance bills make their way into the post office boxes in West
Tisbury this month, homeowners are facing some steep premium hikes.

The increases - reported to be as low as eight per cent and as
high as 100 per cent - come less than two months after the
town's fire safety rating dropped to the lowest possible score.

Everybodoy's Topic Is the Lousy Weather; Better Soon (We've Heard That Before)

Fire Safety Ratings Slide to a New Low, Insurance Costs Up

By MANDY LOCKE

As insurance bills make their way into the post office boxes in West
Tisbury this month, homeowners are facing some steep premium hikes.

The increases - reported to be as low as eight per cent and as
high as 100 per cent - come less than two months after the
town's fire safety rating dropped to the lowest possible score.

High on Gay Head Cliffs, a Land Bank Beauty

High on Gay Head Cliffs, a Land Bank Beauty

New System of Trails May Result from Sale in Aquinnah

By CHRIS BURRELL

In a move that could resurrect a long-lost museum in Aquinnah and
create a network of trails over a dramatic south shore seascape, the
Martha's Vineyard Land Bank has agreed to buy the six-acre
Vanderhoop homestead just south of the Gay Head Lighthouse.

Vineyard Question: Would Paramedics Save More Lives?

Vineyard Question: Would Paramedics Save More Lives?

By JONATHAN BURKE

A proposal by Island medical personnel would establish a regional
squad of paramedics on Martha's Vineyard.

Unlike the Island's basic and intermediate emergency medical
technicians (EMTs), paramedics can dispense prescription medication and
perform other advanced skills. The Vineyard and Nantucket are the only
two communities in Massachusetts that do not have access to paramedic
care.

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