Cape Wind Reconfigures Plan at Horseshoe Shoal to Meet State
Guidelines

By IAN FEIN

Ceding to requests from state officials, commercial fishermen and
the U.S. Coast Guard, developers of the Cape Wind project last week
reconfigured the layout of their hotly debated wind farm proposed for
Nantucket Sound.

It's the dinner hour on Tuesday night, and Luanne Johnson is
tromping through poison ivy and switch grass on the duney hills of
Aquinnah's north shore, holding a fold-out antenna in one hand, a
receiver in the other and hoping she will find her quarry: a skunk named
Pua.

One year after unveiling plans for the costliest construction
project and most ambitious fund-raising goal in Vineyard history,
leaders at the Martha\'s Vineyard Hospital announced this week that
they have amassed a stunning $20 million in pledged donations, nearly
half the $42 million needed to build a new hospital at the Linton Lane
campus in Oak Bluffs.

One year after unveiling plans for the costliest construction project and most ambitious fund-raising goal in Vineyard history, leaders at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital announced this week that they have amassed a stunning $20 million in pledged donations, nearly half the $42 million needed to build a new hospital at the Linton Lane campus in Oak Bluffs.

A family walks along Memorial Wharf eating ice cream, the children wearing Martha's Vineyard sweatshirts, one red, one white and two blue. A stranger stops to help an elderly woman attempting to hang the stars and stripes from her flagpole. Down the street a man, surrounded by three children drawing vivid landscapes in sidewalk chalk, cleans the grime from his grill.

The Fourth of July is almost here and in every storefront, hanging flower basket and living room window Independence Day is visible.

Thirty years ago, two young women walked into the offices of the
Vineyard Gazette on South Summer street in Edgartown looking for
employment.

One of the women, just graduated from Smith College, was so shy that
her friend had to guide her hand into the hand of general manager Dan
West.

Mr. West hired the women for part-time work, inserting inside
sections into the front section of the Gazette.

Boat Line Bill Moves Quietly

Joint Transportation Committee Hosts Surprise Public Hearing on
Legislation Believed Dead; Marc Hanover Will Protest

By JAMES KINSELLA

A sleeper bill to change the governing board of the Steamship
Authority, reportedly sent into limbo earlier this year, emerged last
week for a surprise public hearing before the Joint Committee on
Transportation.

The deaf pilot whose single engine airplane crashed last Thursday on a runway at Katama Airfield in Edgartown remained in critical condition yesterday in the intensive care unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

The deaf pilot whose single engine airplane crashed last Thursday on a runway at Katama Airfield in Edgartown remained in critical condition yesterday in the intensive care unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Norton Point Closed to Vehicles to Protect Piping Plover Chicks

By JAMES KINSELLA

Over the past four days, public and private officials have closed
sections of Norton Point and East Beach to four-wheel-drive vehicles to
protect newly hatched piping plover chicks and nests with eggs yet to
hatch.

In Massachusetts, the piping plover is a threatened species. After
hatching, the chicks take about 30 days before they fly, making them
vulnerable to the tires of four-wheel-drive vehicles driving along a
beach.