Boatline Issues Divide Board

Future of Once Proposed Parking Lot Property Triggers Sharp Debate;
New Bedford Suit Runs Up Big Legal Bills

By JULIA WELLS

Gazette Senior Writer

NANTUCKET - An old skeleton tumbled out of the closet
yesterday when Steamship Authority governors took up the thorny question
of selling the Blacksmith Shop Road property in Falmouth, in a
passionate discussion that revealed fresh fault lines on the boat line
board - especially between the Falmouth and Vineyard members.

Tisbury Police Ask Expansion

Acting Chief Presents Selectmen With Detailed Proposal to Boost
Number of Uniformed Officers By Three Full-Time Slots

By JOSHUA SABATINI

School board members in Charlottesville, Va., want Dr. Kriner Cash to be their next school superintendent, and are negotiating right now to see if they can convince the leader of the Vineyard school system to head south.

MVC Votes to Rescind District Designation for Chappaquiddick

By MANDY LOCKE

The Martha's Vineyard Commission officially closed a year-long
chapter for the residents of Chappaquiddick last night, voting to
rescind the island's designation as a district of critical
planning concern (DCPC).

The vote ended the one-year building moratorium three weeks early.
Without the vote, the moratorium would automatically expire June 7.

From thousands of feet above the blue-green waters of Nantucket Sound, reality seems to wait below.

Inside the cabin of the 1977 single-engine plane, Mike is the tough-talking washashore, piloting his Skylane 182 from the Vineyard to Hyannis. Joe, the co-pilot, is an Islander through and through, with a war story for every patch of water below. And for the moment, Bruce, who peers from the plane's window looking for his Lambert's Cove home, forgets about his battle with cancer.

Voters Approve Aquinnah Budget; School Money Faces Override Vote

By JOSHUA SABATINI

At a town meeting marked by lengthy debate and intermittent
confusion, Aquinnah voters approved a $1.78 million general operating
budget and agreed to put $271,000 of the budget for the elementary
school to a Proposition 2 1/2 override vote before deciding to cut the
meeting short about two hours in.

Former Tisbury selectman A. Kirk Briggs was convicted of drunk driving and vehicular homicide yesterday in Edgartown District Court and sentenced to 21 months in the Dukes County jail.

A third commercial airline has launched service to Martha's Vineyard Airport, joining Cape Air and the returning US Airways Express in serving Islanders while providing residents and visitors with additional airports to fly directly to and from.

Boston-Maine Airways, an affiliate of Pan American Airways based in Portsmouth, N.H., last Friday saw its inaugural flight from headquarters land at the Vineyard airport around noon. Airline officials proceeded to the terminal for a ceremony marking the start of the carrier's summer Island service.

New Bedford Politicians Begin Maneuvers for Boat Line Seat

By JULIA WELLS

The slumbering campaign by the city of New Bedford to overhaul the
Steamship Authority saw a bit of fresh activity this week when a state
representative hastily added an amendment to the proposed state budget
- and then just as quickly withdrew it.

A 22-year-old man was charged in district court yesterday with
escaping from Dukes County Jail and House of Correction in Edgartown
last weekend. David Luce, who was close to finishing a
two-and-a-half-year sentence for assault and battery and indecent
assault and battery, was discovered missing from the jail at
approximately 2:55 a.m. last Saturday.