Shellfish Group Struggles with Shortfall

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

The Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group is in the midst of a
financial crisis. Director Rick Karney is troubled; it means greater
hardship in an already difficult business of raising juvenile shellfish.

Wyc and Corinne Grousbeck are having a few friends to their
Edgartown Great Pond home this month to talk shop.

Boston Celtics coaching legend Arnold (Red) Auerbach and his former
offensive star K.C. Jones will be spinning tales about the Celtics
eight-straight National Basketball Association (NBA) championship streak
back in the 1950s and 1960s - educating and entertaining the
Celtics' newest majority owners.

Police Study Landlord's Hidden Camera; Affidavit Lists Case
for Search Warrant

By BRIEN HEFLER

Tisbury police are investigating whether an electrical contractor
may have illegally videotaped tenants in a rented house after a hidden
camera was found in a bathroom there on the morning of June 27.

Richard T. Lehman, 50, owns the property at 450 Franklin street,
where a small camera was discovered by a tenant, who called the police
after her son identified the device.

On the day that America celebrated its independence, and that
Edgartown held the big parade, another kind of parade streamed through
the tiny avenues of the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs; a tetherball
tournament entertained employees of the Vineyard Yacht Club; and, by
night, post-fireworks revelers flocked to Circuit avenue, sidestepping
the blobs of melted ice cream left behind by toddlers before their
bedtime.

It was a warm and sunny weekend, until rains came Monday afternoon;
and the Vineyard took full advantage.

Showing the Colors Down-Island: Reports from Three Main Streets

By C.K. WOLFSON

The day was a reprieve from the lurch and jolt of national news
which often blurs patriotic instincts and makes us struggle for balance.

Independence Day: steady, reliable, served up in primary colors,
ornamented in blue skies, balloons and family reunions. It is an
occasion whose tradition and provenance singularly belong to the United
States, to be celebrated collectively, a festive reminder of the
precepts and privileges of our democratic system.

Changes Could Threaten Plan for Housing, MVC Is Warned

By MANDY LOCKE

As the Martha's Vineyard Commission (MVC) concluded its review
of a 60-unit affordable rental development in Edgartown, town leaders
warned commissioners that tampering with the proposal would jeopardize
the project.

"Some conditions placed on this could delay or kill the
project," Alan Gowell, a member of the Edgartown affordable
housing committee, told commissioners Thursday night.

Court Will Decide a Land Bank Issue

By ALEXIS TONTI

An ongoing tax dispute between the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank
Commission and the West Tisbury board of assessors has now landed in
front of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals for a ruling that will set a
precedent for how the conservation agency conducts its land transactions
Islandwide.

For Some, Fog Ruins Rockets' Red Glare; It's Just a July
Thing

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By ALEXIS TONTI

How Islanders rated this year's July Fourth fireworks display
all depended on their point of view - quite literally.

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