As soon as he saw Kaleena Searle swing up her right arm, the
16-year-old boy from Tisbury knew something bad was coming his way.
"I knew I was going to get stabbed," the teenager told
police last year.
It happened on a late night in mid-June. The boy had just walked out
of Cumberland Farms carrying a quart of milk, a chicken sandwich and a
Kudos bar.
When eight-year-old Asa P. Bernard came home from school a week ago
Tuesday, his parents had bad news for him. All of the family's
fishing gear was stolen. Someone, the night before, had taken all the
rods and reels and fishing tackle from the pickup truck parked next to
their home.
"I felt like I was a volcano that had just exploded. I was
very super angry, super mad and medium sad," Asa recalled this
week.
Boatline Governor Proposes a Return to Summer Standby
By JULIA WELLS
NEW BEDFORD - A $68 million operating budget, a $2.4 million
capital budget, a $3.3 million rate increase for the people of the
Vineyard and Nantucket and the prospect of a new head tax - the
talk was all about money yesterday at the monthly meeting of the
Steamship Authority governors.
Vineyard boat line governor Kathryn A. Roessel also called for
bringing back summer standby lines for cars.
Cause of Power Outage Unknown, but Clearly It Ended Just in Time
By MANDY LOCKE and ALEXIS TONTI
For 75 minutes at dusk yesterday, the lights went out from Aquinnah
to Vineyard Haven as a power outage affected most of the Island.
But the only sounds of panic came from Red Sox fans chomping at the
bit for electricity to be restored before the gripping American League
Championship Series tie-breaker. Those who couldn't risk the
gamble fled to Oak Bluffs, the only town that maintained power
throughout the outage.
Red Sox fever has descended on the Island. At Bert's
Barbershop in Vineyard Haven, there is division over what team to
support in the race to the World Series. Wayne Ferreira, a barber from
Falmouth, is a Red Sox fan. So is Phil Combra, the owner - though
"I used to be a Yankee fan, I am a Red Sox fan now. I changed 15
years ago."
Survey of Businesses Seeks Facts, Opinions on Island Economics
By MANDY LOCKE
Two Vineyard agencies are joining forces in an effort to capture the
dynamics of the Island's business community through an extensive
survey of more than 1,000 business leaders.
The search continues this morning in Oak Bluffs harbor for the
whereabouts of Michael F. Landfear, 54, of Falmouth.
Mr. Landfear was last seen Tuesday night heading out on a small
rowing pram to a boat moored in the harbor. U.S. Coast Guard, state and
local police, together with public safety volunteers from three Island
towns searched all day yesterday without result.
By Unanimous Vote, Rejection
A Key Subcommittee Turns Down Southern Woodlands Plan, Citing
Detriments That Outweigh Benefits
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Capping months of scrappy combat with the former developers of the
Down Island Golf Club, a key subcommittee of the Martha's Vineyard
Commission voted without dissent this week to recommend that a massive
housing project in the southern woodlands be denied.
Amid growing concern that a MassHighway plan to build a temporary
drawbridge will threaten the health of Lagoon Pond, Island residents are
calling for Oak Bluffs and Tisbury to speak with one voice when it comes
to confronting state officials about the replacement for the 68-year-old
bridge.
A new round of private well tests in an Edgartown neighborhood this week intensified the mystery for Island officials working to pinpoint the source of groundwater contamination spreading through the West Tisbury Road subdivision.
"It's too much of a puzzle, too many unknowns at this point," said Matthew Poole, Edgartown health agent, noting that now 20 per cent of the homes tested have water unsafe for drinking.
