Boat Line Fares Set to Go Up
Steamship Authority Governors Review $78 Million Budget; Managers
Say Tariff Hike Needed to Cover Costs
By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer
Passenger fares are expected to rise more than eight per cent on the
Martha's Vineyard route under a set of across-the-board rate hikes
proposed Tuesday by Steamship Authority managers.
A 54-year-old New York woman died after an incident in rough seas
off a remote beach in Chilmark on Tuesday afternoon, where she was
swimming with two friends.
The accident took place off the south-facing ocean beach on the
Chilmark Pond Preserve, a property owned by the Martha's Vineyard
Land Bank.
Swimmers and sunbathers leaving State Beach Monday afternoon were
surprised to find parking tickets stuck under the wiper blades of their
windshields, but for more than a few the surprise turned to outrage when
they learned who had issued the tickets.
The name of the officer listed on the $10 tickets was S. Berlucchi,
who checked off the boxes next to Edgartown and Oak Bluffs to indicate
what town had issued the citations.
The Oak Bluffs selectmen have released the minutes of a May 9 executive session during which the board voted to terminate town administrator Casey Sharpe without cause, triggering a clause in her contract to pay her more than $76,000 in salary, sick time and vacation pay.
After leaving her post July 15, Ms. Sharpe received $45,427 for six months’ salary and $31,449 in unused sick days, for a total payout of $76,876.
Last Year's Winner Takes Lead in Bass Derby
By MAX HART
Like the great Yankee catcher Yogi Berra once said, it was deja vu
all over again.
The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School football team
dominated Carver High School by a score of 44 to 25 in Friday's
home opener that featured a spectacular interception return, two
dramatic goal line stands and a steady dose of scoring by the home team,
both on the ground and through the air.
The Vineyarders improve to 2-0 on the season.
Their next game is home against Cathedral High School-Boston at 1
p.m. on Saturday.
After six months of waiting, $900 in application fees, one lost job
offer, thousands of dollars in lost salary and untold emotional strain,
a Martha's Vineyard immigration story ended happily last week. If
there is a moral to the tale, it is that the Department of Homeland
Security is a bureaucracy as easy to navigate as Cape Horn in a squall,
and despite its reputation, the Edgartown post office is not always to
blame.
Difficult Issues Confront MVC
Regional Land Use Commission Searches for Fresh Approach to Regulate
Trophy Houses, Protect Neighborhoods
By IAN FEIN
Following back-to-back Martha's Vineyard Commission meetings
that centered on the impacts that out-of-scale homes can pose on their
neighbors and the rest of the Island, leaders in the regional planning
agency are now confronting the question of what to do.
Victim in Theft, British Library Pushes for Tougher Sentence
By JAMES KINSELLA
The British Library, one of the institutions victimized by rare-map
thief E. Forbes Smiley 3rd of Chilmark, has urged the court to increase
the severity of his pending sentence.
The library, whose 1520 Apian world map was stolen by Mr. Smiley,
has called on U.S. District Judge Janet Arterton to sentence him to 78
to 97 months in prison. The government and the defense have agreed that
his sentence should range from 57 to 71 months.
How have the wind and choppy seas affected the fishing during the first week of the 61st Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby? That depends on whom you ask.
