By an overwhelming margin, Raymond LaPorte was elected to the Tisbury board of selectmen Tuesday. He welcomes the challenge and speaks confidently, not arrogantly, about the role he looks forward to playing in the highest elected position he has ever held on the Island. His strength stems in part from his years of volunteer work and his active lifestyle.
With the American lobster in short supply in Vineyard
waters, the state and federal governments are in the early
stages of considering new minimum sizes and catch limits.
Hearings are planned for later this summer.
A Massachusetts Land Court judge last week dismissed the central claim in a complicated property rights case that centers on an attempt by a group of developers to open up access to a vast area of landlocked lots off Moshup Trail in Aquinnah.
Land Bank's Year
By MANDY LOCKE
Martha's Vineyard Land Bank revenues will fall slightly
below the $8.5 million record set in the last fiscal year. With
the close of the fiscal year but two weeks away, land bank
executive director James Lengyel projects ending the year with
$7.6 million.
Given the recent downturn in the economy, Mr. Lengyel and
the land bank commission expected this drop. In fact, the
commission predicted a 15 per cent decrease for this year and
the next two years.
Governor Files SSA Bill
By JULIA WELLS
Acting Gov.
This time around, the gloves are coming off. That is the word that's been quietly circulated for the last several months by spokesmen for the Down Island Golf Club, as they prepared a new plan to build a private luxury golf club in the southern woodlands section of Oak Bluffs.
Revealing new details in the investigation into the March car crash that killed 18-year-old Eric MacLean, a police affidavit filed last week in Edgartown District Court unleashes an array of allegations that a Tisbury taxi operation and a car and moped rental business are involved in a counterfeit inspection sticker scam that extends far beyond the fatal crash.
Today, the Island's new central transfer facility is doubtless the cleanest in the country.
"I was so surprised," said Catherine Thompson, director of the Chilmark Public Library. Ms. Thompson learned last Thursday that her library was the recipient of a state grant totaling $1,108,880 for expansion and renovation.
Ms. Thompson said the library trustees had applied in January to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. "I just hoped we'd make it to the waiting list," she said.
The library trustees and other town leaders have been working for years on an expansion plan.
Graduation Day
By JOSHUA SABATINI
From outside the Tabernacle Sunday at half past one o'clock, the graduates of the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Class of 2001 began their march down the center aisle as the band struck up the traditional processional music, Pomp and Circumstance.
A moment before, the graduates were milling around the Camp Ground beneath a bright June sun, faces beaming in the glories of this day.
