Basketball Team Wins
By KATHERINE WILEY
Tuesday afternoon, the Martha's Vineyard boys' varsity
basketball team showed what a burst of energy, a dose of teamwork and a
foundation of hard work can do. It can get you a win in the preliminary
round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA)
Division 3 basketball tournament.
The Vineyarders kept the fans on the edge of their seats, overcoming
a large deficit and beating 19t-seeded Old Rochester 55-51 in a
hard-fought game at the Vineyard's regional high school.
Lenny Clarke steals doughnuts from co-workers' desks, sleeps in the office when his sister in law is visiting and would rather nap than watch for crooks.
At least that's the case when he's playing detective Frank Harrigan on the new comedy, The Job, that debuts Wednesday, March 14 at 9:30 p.m. on ABC.
In real life, Mr. Clarke drinks tea, enjoys a daily swim in the summer and is a year-round Chilmark resident.
In the view of Aquinnah police chief Doug Fortes, the turning point came in the fall of 1999, when rangers from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay
Head (Aquinnah) came back from a trip to the Oneida Indian Nation in upstate New York, packing a half dozen Glock nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistols.
Head varsity hockey coach Mike Jackson is serving a five-day
suspension after an incident following Sunday's Fairleigh
Dickinson tournament at the Martha's Vineyard Arena that left the
team's trophy in pieces and the hockey community sharply divided.
Tissue samples taken last September from a Chilmark skunk and a Katama rat tested positive for tularemia, the rare disease that infected 15 people on the Island last year, killing one man who did not seek medical attention in time.
Vineyard Addresses Task Force
By JULIA WELLS
The governor's ferry task force had a three-and-a-half hour
lesson in local politics, economics, transit systems, self-governance
and the cost of butter last night when some 300 Vineyard residents
turned out for the final public hearing of the now-celebrated
fact-finding committee.
"Most of our year-round constituents are middle-class working
families, and the Steamship Authority is their lifeline to the
mainland," declared West Tisbury selectman Cynthia Mitchell.
A pair of hefty private property sales in Edgartown boosted revenues
at the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank to a new record this week.
Acting on a joint request from attorneys for the Martha's
Vineyard Commission and the Down Island Golf Club, a superior court
judge sent the golf club plan back to the commission this week for fresh
review.
"This matter is remanded to the Martha's Vineyard
Commission for further proceedings, including a public hearing to
consider plaintiff's amended application," declared the Hon.
Richard C. Connan, an associate justice of the superior court who sits
in Barnstable.
Task Force Meets on Cape
By JULIA WELLS
MASHPEE - A chorus of Cape Cod politicians and residents told
a governor's ferry task force last night that they want relief
from the Island-bound traffic they believe is clogging their roads.
And leaders in the town of Barnstable demanded a full voting seat
for their community on the Steamship Authority board of governors.
"We have been the unintended victims of the growth and
prosperity on the Islands," declared Barnstable town council
president Roy Richardson.
Some 81 acres of land that was formerly part of the storied Pohogonot Farm in Edgartown was sold to a private buyer late last week for a total sale price of $15.5 million. The sale marks the largest single residential real estate transaction in dollar value in the history of the Island, topping the $12 million sale of 80 acres on the North Shore in West Tisbury last year.
The property was purchased by three realty trusts; the principal owner behind the trusts wishes to remain private.
