Brazilians Try to Repair Lives After Fire
By MANDY LOCKE
Three weeks after an Edgartown house fire destroyed the home of 14
Brazilians, the displaced immigrants still struggle to secure a new
foothold on the Island.
"A lot of the people are still recuperating. Much of that
money [they lost] was to get them through the winter. They are trying to
get on their feet again," said Elio Silva, a member of the
Brazilian community familiar with those who lost their home.
A federal mediator yesterday waded into the dispute between
officials in Aquinnah and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
over the tribe's plans to form its own police force.
Top scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and
fish conservation advocates are reporting a significant increase in the
numbers of swordfish swimming in the North Atlantic. Although waters
around the Vineyard have yet to see any recovery, the numbers of
juvenile fish have improved significantly.
The purple and white bumper stickers are somewhat primitive,
produced on a home computer with no stickum, so they have to be fixed to
bumpers with Scotch tape. But if bumper stickers that fall off in the
rain carry a message about the group that made them, then in this case
the message is grass roots and underfunded.
Add to that, committed.
Edgartown Planning Board Faces Dilemma on Size of Mansions
By MANDY LOCKE
The Edgartown planning board is torn.
The fracture - slow yet certain - led to a tense clash
last week.
Only one item appeared on the board's agenda - a project
that has inched toward a vote since Richard Schifter filed his
intentions with the board last spring.
Chilmark residents interested in owning a home may find the going a
little easier since voters at a special town meeting Monday night
approved a significant rewriting of zoning bylaws to create new
homesites in the years ahead.
The special town meeting at the Chilmark Community Center drew 174
voters.
Let Good Times Roll for Grads in Class of 1960
By C.K. WOLFSON
The cheerleaders are now grandmothers.
And they're celebrating. It's a communal 60th birthday
party hosted by Island members of the Class of 1960 - the first
graduating class of Martha's Vineyard Regional High School.
A fishing trip on Sengekontacket Pond turned tragic Monday
when two men from Oak Bluffs drowned accidentally several hours after
paddling a one-person kayak out to a sandbar and casting their lines.
Against the backdrop of a heated race for Massachusetts governor and a slew of ballot initiatives on everything from bilingual education to income tax, voters on Martha's Vineyard will face their own subset of important electoral decisions on the first Tuesday in November this year.
It doesn't happen often that students and school administrators find common ground so quickly, but a single question has united them for the time being: What's up with the cost of a school lunch?
