Before Any Appeal, Tribal Case Judge Will Be Asked to Reconsider
Ruling
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
The attorney who represents the Gay Head Taxpayers Association said
yesterday that he will ask a superior court judge to reconsider a
decision made last week in favor of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
(Aquinnah).
Boat Line Riders, Hotel Visitors Both Down as Wet Days Go on
By JONATHAN BURKE
Starting with the boats, Island businesses are feeling the pinch of
the wet and chilly weather of this spring.
This May, according to the Steamship Authority, there were 201,129
passenger trips to the Vineyard from Woods Hole, down 5.4 per cent from
last year's 212,646. For the first two weeks of June, passenger
trips were off 6.4 per cent, from 109,820 to 102,755.
Ask someone to recite the symptoms of Lyme disease, and you'll
probably hear all the classic signs: bull's eye rash, fever and
aching joints.
But what about depression, memory loss and other cognitive
disorders?
Surprisingly, Lyme disease - in its chronic form - can
also be the culprit for a host of psychiatric problems in anywhere from
15 to 40 per cent of cases.
CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. - The Mabel made it.
They pulled away from the Coastwise Packet Wharf in Vineyard Haven on Friday, June 13, their oars waggling a bit uncertainly in the air and in the water. Seven days later - late on Friday afternoon - they put the bow of their boat on the shore of a cove some 30 miles north of Manhattan and dropped themselves a bit unsteadily onto hard sand shaded by weeping willows at a park on the Hudson River.
Daily fast ferry service between Oak Bluffs and Quonset Point, R.I.
begins today. Yesterday the founder of the service, Charles A. Donadio
Jr., told a crowd at the Oak Bluffs dock anyone using his new ferry
service will cut hours off their car trip to and from the Island. And at
a cost of $24 per adult, they'll save money.
How Two Islands View Boat Line
It Threatens to Become an Issue: Nantucket Is Feeling Isolated,
After Long Run of Unity with the Vineyard
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Fresh fault lines at the Steamship Authority these days may threaten
to undermine the traditional bedrock of unity between the Vineyard and
Nantucket.
The 43-year-old public boat line is chartered to provide dependable
year-round ferry service to the two Islands.
CDs, Concerts Are in the Mix Aboveground
By CHRIS BURRELL
When Mike Mackey informed his boss Wednesday that he was going to a
Foo Fighters concert and would be late to work the next day, he probably
knew he wasn't going out on a limb.
At most any other workplace, such a declaration might brand the
employee a slacker, but at Aboveground Records in Edgartown, store owner
Michael Barnes lives - and works - by a whole different set
of standards.
"That's okay," he told his 19-year-old staffer.
"We support the rock."
Marguerite A. Bergstrom Left Her Mark on Island Hospitality, Housing
and Politics
By MANDY LOCKE
Marguerite A. Bergstrom, a celebrated Island humanitarian, died in
her Wing Road home Tuesday at the age of 81.
Better known by those who loved her as Bergie, Ms. Bergstrom was a
war veteran, a retired nurse and hospital administrator, former
innkeeper, veteran Tisbury official, affordable housing champion and
prominent church leader.
Fire Safety Ratings Slide to a New Low, Insurance Costs Up
By MANDY LOCKE
As insurance bills make their way into the post office boxes in West
Tisbury this month, homeowners are facing some steep premium hikes.
The increases - reported to be as low as eight per cent and as
high as 100 per cent - come less than two months after the
town's fire safety rating dropped to the lowest possible score.
Fire Safety Ratings Slide to a New Low, Insurance Costs Up
By MANDY LOCKE
As insurance bills make their way into the post office boxes in West
Tisbury this month, homeowners are facing some steep premium hikes.
The increases - reported to be as low as eight per cent and as
high as 100 per cent - come less than two months after the
town's fire safety rating dropped to the lowest possible score.
