Martha's Vineyard Land Bank revenues will fall slightly below the $8.5 million record set in the last fiscal year. With the close of the fiscal year but two weeks away, land bank executive director James Lengyel projects ending the year with $7.6 million.
Given the recent downturn in the economy, Mr. Lengyel and the land bank commission expected this drop. In fact, the commission predicted a 15 per cent decrease for this year and the next two years. The decline for the present fiscal year represents only an 8.4 per cent decrease.
Governor Files SSA Bill
By JULIA WELLS
Acting Gov.
This time around, the gloves are coming off. That is the word that's been quietly circulated for the last several months by spokesmen for the Down Island Golf Club, as they prepared a new plan to build a private luxury golf club in the southern woodlands section of Oak Bluffs.
Revealing new details in the investigation into the March car crash that killed 18-year-old Eric MacLean, a police affidavit filed last week in Edgartown District Court unleashes an array of allegations that a Tisbury taxi operation and a car and moped rental business are involved in a counterfeit inspection sticker scam that extends far beyond the fatal crash.
Today, the Island's new central transfer facility is doubtless the cleanest in the country.
"I was so surprised," said Catherine Thompson, director of the Chilmark Public Library. Ms. Thompson learned last Thursday that her library was the recipient of a state grant totaling $1,108,880 for expansion and renovation.
Ms. Thompson said the library trustees had applied in January to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. "I just hoped we'd make it to the waiting list," she said.
The library trustees and other town leaders have been working for years on an expansion plan.
Graduation Day
By JOSHUA SABATINI
From outside the Tabernacle Sunday at half past one o'clock, the graduates of the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Class of 2001 began their march down the center aisle as the band struck up the traditional processional music, Pomp and Circumstance.
A moment before, the graduates were milling around the Camp Ground beneath a bright June sun, faces beaming in the glories of this day.
If he's not successful in his next bid to build a luxury, private golf course in the southern woodlands of Oak Bluffs, Connecticut developer Corey Kupersmith will give the financially-strapped town just what it doesn't want - over 300 extra housing units.
Close down the Island's largest private trash hauler, the lawyers say, and you can expect chaos - garbage piling up on Island streets and businesses toppling under the weight of so much rubbish.
Dead Whale on Beach
By JOSHUA SABATINI
An object drifted toward the South Beach shoreline early Friday afternoon. Pauline Martin, who was visiting Edgartown residents Kosta and Louise George, saw it in the ocean and wondered what it was. When the object washed ashore, they discovered the answer - a male, juvenile sperm whale.
After a day, brown and green pigments dappled the once black-and-white flesh. The tail fin lost its firmness, became a yellow membrane swishing about in the breaking waves.
