Time Machine Terms
November 30, 2006
Boat Line to Seek Higher License Fees from Competition
The Steamship Authority is expected to impose higher fees and new
restrictions on the operations of its main competitor, Hy-Line Cruises,
when the SSA board meets to consider Hy-Line's new licensing
agreement on Tuesday.
November 24, 2006
Fabled Island Cup Comes Home in Record Win
You could hear the crowd rumbling on Saturday before the ferry carrying the high school football team, fresh from its 47-22 win over Nantucket in the annual Island Cup, had even docked in Vineyard Haven.
November 23, 2006
Former Town Official Is Fined for Conflict of Interest Violation
A former member of the Oak Bluffs zoning board of appeals who is
also an architect was fined $3,000 this week by the Massachusetts Ethics
Commission for violating the state conflict of interest law. William
(Chuck) Sullivan represented clients on six occasions in front of his
own board, the ethics commission found.
November 23, 2006
Sale of Hospital Draws Queries
The Martha's Vineyard Hospital will be fully covered for any
decrease in Medicare funding that flows from a proposed affiliation with
the giant Partners Health Care group, a gathering of Island residents
were promised this week.
November 23, 2006
Red Stocking Fund Begins Season of Helping Needy
The Red Stocking Fund is the Vineyard's holiday Santa. Red Stocking elves are already quietly working behind the scenes to make sure every Island child with needs has a warm and love-filled season. Last year 275 children in 173 families got a boost of holiday cheer, thanks to Red Stocking. This year the number is expected to be higher.
November 23, 2006
Energy Conservation Lagging on Vineyard
Energy Conservation Lagging on Vineyard
By IAN FEIN
Climate change has been at the top of nearly every political agenda
this fall.
November 23, 2006
Growing Class Divide Cause for Worry
The greatest thing about the Vineyard for the Rev. Alden Besse is
not the natural beauty - as much as he appreciates it - but
the intimacy of the Island community.
As a longtime minister at Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven,
and someone who is involved in numerous nonprofit organizations, he
believes that people on the Vineyard have always taken care of one
another.
November 23, 2006
Landscape Master: Allen Whiting Publishes Book of Life's Work
It's raining outside, so artist Allen Whiting is doing a quick inventory of the leaks in his West Tisbury barn-turned-studio, making sure that stacks of finished oil paintings are out of the way of the runoff. Repairs can be put off to another day.
November 17, 2006
Vito Capizzo, a Nantucket Legend
As a 10-year-old boy in Sicily, Vito Capizzo was a sporting heretic. He never liked soccer, the sports obsession of his birth country. “Never liked it,” said the Nantucket football coach.
And 56 years since his arrival in America, after more than 40 years coaching high school football, Mr. Capizzo has more reason than ever not to like soccer, for it is robbing him of talented athletes and damaging and his reputation as the ”winningest” football coach in Massachusetts.
Just as he feared.
November 16, 2006
Enthusiasm Builds for Farm Agency
Enthusiasm Builds for Farm Agency
By IAN FEIN
Just over a decade ago, the Massachusetts state government cut
funding for the Dukes County Cooperative Extension Service and forced
closure of the popular Island program, which provided useful resources
for Vineyard farmers.
Today, with a resurgence of small-scale agriculture spreading across
the country and taking hold here on the Vineyard, the state is
recommending the creation of another Island public agency to address
farming interests.
