Football Team Rides Road to Super Bowl Through Nantucket
By BRETT FERRY
The 9-1 Martha's Vineyard football team will fly to Nantucket
tomorrow to battle the 6-3 Whalers, aiming to secure an undefeated
league record - and with it a spot in the state playoffs -
even as they try to win a fourth consecutive Island Cup. Kickoff is 1
p.m. at Nantucket High School.
The discovery of airplane parts and other evidence at South Beach
this week confirms that two men traveling in a private plane that
disappeared 10 days ago were killed in a catastrophic crash in Vineyard
waters.
Fast ferries have been much in the news these days, especially on
the Vineyard, but here is a fresh question to ponder: What happens when
a ferry that plies what is arguably the shortest route in the world
suddenly becomes faster?
Of course the answer is simple enough - the ferry gets there
faster. On the Chappaquiddick ferry this means a route that now takes
about two minutes has now been shortened by about 30 seconds.
The long-awaited master plan for the Martha's Vineyard Airport
envisions longer and wider run-ways, more hangars, a bigger main
terminal and room for retail shopping - all that but no land for a
new jail.
For months now, Wampanoag tribal chairwoman Beverly Wright has been telling her constituents and at least one federal agency that the tribe's finances are in terrible shape, riddled with debts from failed business ventures.
SSA Proposal Shows New Bedford Plan
Boat Line Favors Whaling City Service Based on Long Season and Fast
Ferries Capable of Carrying Huge Volume
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Against a backdrop of internal maneuvers and with no concrete policy
directive from the board of governors, senior managers at the Steamship
Authority are now moving ahead to develop New Bedford as an expanded
port.
The land search for a plane carrying two people that is believed to
have crashed near or on Martha's Vineyard Tuesday night was
suspended yesterday afternoon at 3 p.m., pending new information.
For two long days and a night, local firemen, police and volunteers
combed the woods of the Island in search of the remains of a
single-engine airplane that went missing in foul weather. As the Gazette
went to press, there was still no trace of the plane.
Fairwinds Housing Development Narrowly Wins MVC Approval
By MANDY LOCKE
Minutes shy of 11 o'clock last night, the Martha's
Vineyard Commission narrowly approved the Fairwinds affordable housing
development slotted for 4.9 acres of sloping land west of
Tisbury's center.
Final approval of the Chapter 40B project - with six members
in favor, four against and one abstention - was in question for
most of two hours of deliberation.
Speak English: That's the Goal for Newcomers
By C.K. WOLFSON
Antonio Santos is waiting.
The 42-year old Reliable Market employee, an Island resident for
almost two years, is fluent enough in English to have become a
department manager at the Oak Bluffs market and to teach Portuguese to
English-speaking Islanders. "So why do I need a tutor," he
says, explaining, "I want to improve my accent and grammar so I
can have more friends; so I can express my ideas in a clever way and
because I don't want to sound stupid - because I am not
stupid."
County Manager Announces Retirement
By JONATHAN BURKE
After giving a report on the fiscal health of county government,
Dukes County manager Carol Borer announced Wednesday evening that she
will retire from the position she has held since 1997.
The statement caught county commissioners off guard: "Well,
that's a surprise," said John Alley of West Tisbury.
