Steamship Authority Board Offers Top Job to Veteran of Marine
Transport Company
By JULIA WELLS
In the end they decided to offer the job to the guy with the
battered briefcase.
"There's that case again," mused Falmouth
Steamship Authority governor Galen Robbins as Fred C. Raskin set the
scarred, antique leather case on the table in front of him, just before
his final interview with the boat line board.
A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs
By JOSHUA SABATINI
Monday evening the boys\\\\\\\' varsity basketball team pours out
from the locker room onto the hardwood floor and forms two lines for
pregame layups.
First year head coach Ken Sanders, in a white oxford shirt, tie and
black trousers, stands at center court watching his 12 players with a
wide smile.
He walks over to one line and stays there until he\\\\\\\'s shaken
and slapped hands with each player.
A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs
By JOSHUA SABATINI
Monday evening the boys\\\' varsity basketball team pours out
from the locker room onto the hardwood floor and forms two lines for
pregame layups.
First year head coach Ken Sanders, in a white oxford shirt, tie and
black trousers, stands at center court watching his 12 players with a
wide smile.
He walks over to one line and stays there until he\\\'s shaken
and slapped hands with each player.
A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs
By JOSHUA SABATINI
Monday evening the boys\' varsity basketball team pours out
from the locker room onto the hardwood floor and forms two lines for
pregame layups.
First year head coach Ken Sanders, in a white oxford shirt, tie and
black trousers, stands at center court watching his 12 players with a
wide smile.
He walks over to one line and stays there until he\'s shaken
and slapped hands with each player.
A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs
By JOSHUA SABATINI
Monday evening the boys' varsity basketball team pours out
from the locker room onto the hardwood floor and forms two lines for
pregame layups.
First year head coach Ken Sanders, in a white oxford shirt, tie and
black trousers, stands at center court watching his 12 players with a
wide smile.
He walks over to one line and stays there until he's shaken
and slapped hands with each player.
The Martha's Vineyard Commission last night affirmed its decision to reject the Down Island Golf Club plan, but not before a minor fracas around an unexpected eleventh-hour pitch from the Oak Bluffs selectmen to have the commission delay the final written version of the denial.
Island Community Raises Concerns Over Hospital; Board Listens in
Silence
By MANDY LOCKE
Members of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital board of trustees
listened, for the most part in silence, to an outpouring of public
concern and demands for change at a forum held Tuesday night.
Nearly 300 Vineyard residents, doctors and hospital officials
gathered in the regional high school Performing Arts Center to discuss
the current state of the hospital - spurred by the recent
resignation of hospital surgeon Dr. Richard Koehler.
$1.8 Million Gift from Graham Estate Supports Work of Island Hospice
Agency
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Hospice of Martha's Vineyard, the singular program that
quietly provides free care to terminally ill patients and their families
on the Island, is now set to receive a stunning gift of $1.8 million
from the estate of the late Katharine Graham.
Named as one of several beneficiaries of a charitable remainder
trust, Hospice is the sole Martha's Vineyard charity to receive a
gift from Mrs. Graham's estate.
Freight Service Outlook Dims
Steamship Authority Awaits Word from New Bedford on Summer Freight
Service to Island; New Deadline Is Set
By JULIA WELLS
The dubious outlook for summer freight service between New Bedford
and the Vineyard got even more dubious last week when Steamship
Authority treasurer and acting general manager Wayne Lamson told the SSA
board of governors that the Whaling City has refused to respond to
inquiries from the boat line.
Trees all along the perimeter of the southern woodlands in Oak Bluffs are plastered with bright yellow No Trespassing signs. Over at town hall, the town clerk is verifying a petition with more than 250 signatures demanding a vote on whether to take the 270 acres by eminent domain.
