The proposed Down Island Golf Club in Oak Bluffs is now officially
back in the pipeline at the Martha's Vineyard Commission with
plans filed last week and an initial hearing scheduled for June 11.
If you like to think Island kids lead a sheltered life, that the real world for them is an ocean away, get ready to have that myth shattered by the Class of 2001, a group of some 140 teenagers who have both taken charge and taken some hard knocks.
One day after the family of Eric MacLean announced they were filing a wrongful death suit against Robert Cimeno and Beach Road Moped Rentals in connection with the car crash in March that killed Mr. MacLean, state police armed with search warrants Saturday moved in on Mr. Cimeno's business and a Cimeno family residence in Oak Bluffs.
The newly restored Civil War Monument is back home in Oak Bluffs.
The statue of a soldier standing atop a pedestal is as handsome as it
was when it was first built, worthy of another century.
The monument was reassembled last week and while there is still much
to do, the restoration project is nearly finished.
Charter School Graduation
By JOSHUA SABATINI
The four were barefoot, with flower laurels on their heads as they
walked down the aisle beneath the white tent to take their seats center
stage on Saturday afternoon, as Aretha Franklin's Respect boomed
from the sound system. Close to 200 people stood, roaring in support of
Walker Blackwell, Sarah Maxner, Elana Robinson-Lynch and Indaia
Whitcombe, celebrating these first graduates of the first-ever
commencement day in the five-year history of the Martha's Vineyard
Public Charter School.
Every school graduation is important. But the graduation taking place this Saturday, June 2, from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School is in a class of its own.
Tomorrow, the charter school will celebrate its first ever graduation. Four students make up the graduating class. Walker Blackwell, Elana Robinson-Lynch, Indaia Whitcombe and Sarah Maxner will receive diplomas and speak at the event. Thursday morning, the four students talked with the Gazette about the school and their lives.
Cruise Lines Sail for Vineyard
By MANDY LOCKE
Destination: Martha's Vineyard. That's the proclamation
this season for two new cruise line companies and this speaks to a
larger trend for the Vineyard.
Norwegian Cruise Lines will deliver 1,500 to 1,800 passengers to
Terry McCarthy's Dockside Marina in Oak Bluffs starting next
Friday. This wave of tourists will arrive every Friday through the
summer. Oak Bluffs will continue to host Regal Cruise Line throughout
the summer as well.
A small circle of senior managers at the Steamship Authority last
week quietly filed an application for some $2 million in federal grant
money to help launch an $8 million high-speed passenger ferry operation
between the Vineyard and New Bedford, the Gazette has learned.
A wrongful death lawsuit is expected to be filed next week in
connection with the car crash last March that claimed the life of Eric
MacLean, an 18-year-old high school senior who was thrown from a Jeep
driven by his friend and classmate, Seamus O'Brien.
Vineyard Haven Voters Decide June 12 on Successor to Edmond G.
Coogan
By JOSHUA SABATINI
On Tuesday, June 12, Tisbury voters will decide which of two
candidates, Cora Medeiros or Ray LaPorte, will fill the vacancy on the
board of selectmen resulting from the death of Edmond G. Coogan earlier
this year.
Mrs. Medeiros and Mr. LaPorte spoke with the Gazette in separate
interviews to discuss the race and the issues before the town.
