A Boom Is Changing Edgartown (Again)
By MANDY LOCKE
The sound of hammers and saws pulses through downtown Edgartown.
Morning calm is broken by a foreman yelling instructions to a team of
roofers and by the beeping of a delivery truck backing into a driveway
with a load of lumber. A lane of traffic on Cooke street has become a
parking lot for workmen reporting to one of three project sites in a
single block near Pease's Point Way.
"It's looks like the Big Dig," said one
contractor, Norman Rankow.
Boat Line 2004: Big Challenges, with Some Internal Tensions
By JULIA WELLS
The monthly meeting was canceled, but there is no shortage of
business news at the Steamship Authority these days, where revenues are
down, a new but poorly defined marketing push is under fire and fissures
between Nantucket and the Vineyard have grown wider.
And the monthly meetings keep getting canceled.
Tree-Cutting Questions Pull Southern Woodlands Back Before
Commission
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Connecticut developer Corey Kupersmith came back onto the radar
screen this week in a fresh collision with the town of Oak Bluffs and
the Martha's Vineyard Commission - this time over a
tree-cutting project that may or may not be in violation of state and
local laws.
Red Stocking Fillers This Year Will Delight 270 Island Children
By ALEXIS TONTI
At the other end of the year from the sleek summer fundraising
season, a grassroots charity pursues its purpose.
The Red Stocking Fund holds no auctions or celebrity fundraisers. It
has no board of directors, and its managers bear no administrative
titles. The core group of volunteers meets only once a year to set the
date - this year, Dec. 19 - on which strained and straitened
parents will receive the Island's gifts for more than 270 of its
children.
Cable Cameras Changing Face of
Government
By CHRIS BURRELL
Amy Tierney never bargained on becoming a television celebrity. But
now when the top number-cruncher for the Vineyard public schools runs
out the door to attend yet another meeting, budgets and invoices
aren't the only things dogging her mind.
How about her make-up and wardrobe?
A List of Suspects in Threats at School
Graffiti Writer Would Face Expulsion; Videotape from a Hidden Camera
Was Used for Investigation
By CHRIS BURRELL
Relying on videotape and handwriting samples, Oak Bluffs police and
officials at the regional high school said they have narrowed down the
list of girls suspected of writing a threatening message in a school
bathroom last Thursday.
O, Christmas Tree! Park Landlord Says It Must Come Down
By MANDY LOCKE
A graceful Christmas tree is caught in a tug-of-war between
Edgartown leaders and the Benjamin Hall family.
The full-bodied spruce stands 20 feet tall in the center of a
treasured park on Main street. The Halls - who have leased the
so-called mini-park to the town for decades - are demanding the
tree come down.
In Passionate Session, Aquinnah Makes It Official: Not Appealing
By JULIA WELLS
A passionate and sharply drawn discussion in the village of Aquinnah
fell silent this week when the town selectmen voted without dissent to
abandon a court appeal of the sovereign immunity case - and along
with it a 20-year-old landmark Indian land claims agreement.
"This community is the tribe and sovereignty is something I
must uphold," declared selectman James Newman, who changed his
vote in a surprise move at the close of a public hearing on Monday
night.
One More Time, Fellows: The Vineyarders Play in Championship Match
Tomorrow
By ALEXIS TONTI
For the fourth time in five years, Vineyard football is set to play
for the state title. After defeating East Boston 17-12 in this
week's playoff contest, the Vineyarders now will face Manchester
Essex in Saturday's Division VI Super Bowl.
Tiring of Those Who Short Cut, Neighborhood Considers Gate
By MANDY LOCKE
In about eight minutes, a driver taking a shortcut from the West
Tisbury Road to the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road can get from the
entrance at Metcalf Drive to the exit at Dodgers Hole. It takes only six
minutes if he ignores the 15 mile per hour speed limits painted on the
asphalt between speed bumps on the narrow residential streets of the
cut-through.
