Chilmark School Work Nears Completion, But First Days' Classes
Will Be Elsewhere

JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Repairs at the Chilmark School will not be completed in time for
opening day, and yesterday school and town leaders were busy with
last-minute arrangements for an alternative site for the children to
attend school.

Opening day is Thursday for all five elementary schools on the
Vineyard.

Tisbury Grudge on Police Pay Will Get New Hearing at SSA

By ALEXIS TONTI

A muddled Steamship Authority policy remained in the spotlight over
the weekend, as the Vineyard boat line governor took a position in the
debate about payments by the SSA for police details in the port towns.

His Game of Darts Interrupted; A Night of Theatre Is Saved

By TOM DUNLOP

Fred Natusch of Vineyard Haven was playing darts at the home of a
friend on Lake Tashmoo on Friday evening when the call came in from the
Vineyard Playhouse. It was climbing up toward 8 o'clock, and the
theatre was dark. Not in the showbiz sense of dark, as in there's
no production scheduled here tonight, but in the sense of there would be
a production scheduled here tonight, but the lights aren't
working.

Six Island educators are among the nine finalists now vying for the
interim principal jobs in both the West Tisbury and Chilmark schools.

The high-speed search for school leaders comes less than a month
after two principals in the Up-Island district - Elaine Pace and
Carlos Colley - handed in their resignations after each serving
three years on the job.

Owner Appeals to Court in Garage Case

By CHRIS BURRELL

Oak Bluffs businessman and restaurateur Joseph G. Moujabber is
headed to court to try to rescue a three-story garage that his North
Bluff neighbors want to see demolished.

Mr. Moujabber's lawyer, Bruce S. Barnett - an associate
in the Boston law firm of Piper Rudnick - filed an appeal last
week in Dukes County Superior Court, arguing that the Oak Bluffs zoning
board last month wrongly declared the garage illegal while unanimously
upholding the revocation of the building permit.

The cabins are a topple of blankets and mattresses, the last of the tents is being taken down, and remnant odds and ends have been packed in boxes and lined up along the ramp railings. It is the middle of the afternoon and the loudest sound is the leaves rustling overhead. Like an empty ballroom, it is after the season at Camp Jabberwocky, and the echoes of shouts and laughter still hover among the tree branches and empty rooms.

The Aquinnah planning board will seek criminal charges against two
seasonal residents and a local landscape company who topped a large
swath of trees off Lobsterville Road without permission this summer.

With whispers that a hundred more were waiting outside, they filled the hall, charged with the anticipation of hearing the charismatic new voice of the Democratic Party, United States Senatorial candidate from Illinois, Barack Obama, and listening as a panel of luminaries offered their views on Brown vs. Board of Education: Mission Accomplished?

Twenty Applicants for Principals' Positions; Board Hopes for
Resolution Next Week

By CHRIS BURRELL

In a race to fill both principal seats in the two up-Island schools
by the middle of the next week, selection committees are now trying to
whittle 20 applicants down to half that number for the first cut.

The deadline to apply for the two jobs was Tuesday, and public
interviews will take place Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, said Vineyard
schools superintendent Kriner Cash.

Big Plans for Vineyard House Include a New Central Campus

By ALEXIS TONTI

The directors of Vineyard House Inc., the only Island program that
offers housing to people in the early stages of recovery from drug and
alcohol addiction, are now moving forward with a plan to purchase land
and build a central campus for the organization with increased capacity
for residents.