Notice of Lawsuit Filed on Cape Wind

Town of Barnstable and Citizen Groups
Take Formal Steps, Preparing to Sue
State Environmental Secretary.

By IAN FEIN

A fisherman checking on his boat in Edgartown Harbor made a
grisly discovery Monday when he found a dead body on a small stretch of
beach at the end of Morse street.

The fisherman first
alerted Edgartown police of the discovery at 4:16 p.m. The body was
reportedly male and found face down on the beach, surrounded by broken
branches and beach grass uprooted up by the powerful storm that hit the
Island this week.

Ownership of the Chappaquiddick ferry clearly seems a good deal
to a lot of people, judging by the offers Roy Hayes has received since
he revealed that he is looking to sell after 19 years.

It’s not hard to see why someone would want the business
— a monopoly service with an assured and growing demand.

The Island's troubled fishing industry will be a major
focus of the Chilmark annual town meeting on Monday night.

In a town meeting warrant otherwise characterized as "very noncontroversial" by the chairman of the Chilmark board of
selectmen, J.B. Riggs Parker, "the shellfish articles will
obviously get much of the attention on the meeting floor."

Geological time mostly runs incredibly slowly, in measures of
hundreds of thousands, if not millions or billions of years. No wonder
Bob Woodruff was excited about what happened over the weekend.

A powerful spring storm that inundated the entire East Coast

pounded the Vineyard south shore with heavy seas this week, marrying

with extreme tides to carve a substantial breach through Norton Point

Beach at Katama at the extreme southeastern end of Edgartown.

The event leaves Chappaquiddick a true island for the first time

in more than a quarter-century.

The loose ends of Tisbury’s three-day-long town meeting
last week will be tied in the ballot box next Tuesday, as voters
revisit eight Proposition 2 1/2 override requests. The selectmen put
all non-emergency expenditures over $10,000 on override questions this
year, but because the bulk of the spending and borrowing items failed
on town meeting floor, the main focus for voters next week will be a
single contested race for town selectman.

Dianne Powers Is Elected West Tisbury Selectman

By IAN FEIN

Faced with the difficult task of replacing a longtime town leader,
West Tisbury voters yesterday elected Dianne E. Powers to the board of
selectmen.

Ms. Powers, the Dukes County register of deeds, more than doubled
the vote tally of her opponent, Cynthia Riggs, to earn a seat on the
board. The final count was 410 to 190.

"I'm just thrilled and a little overwhelmed," Ms.
Powers said last night. "I'm thankful for the support, and I
hope to live up to it."

While other towns agonized over their town meetings, Edgartown
residents breezed through theirs on Tuesday night, approving a $24
million annual town budget in minutes and working through 67 warrant
articles in a little over two hours.

In an impressive display of support for the priorities of town
authorities, the 200-odd residents who turned out for the meeting failed
to approve only a few of the measures put before them.

High School Budget Must Be Redone

By JULIA WELLS

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School budget now goes
back to the drawing board.

This is the next step following the vote in Oak Bluffs this week to
reduce its high school assessment by some $400,000. The vote capped
months of debate among Island towns over regional school assessments,
which were thrown into a state of widespread confusion because of a
14-year-old state law that for unknown reasons had never been enforced
on the Vineyard until this year.