Ending months of speculation and more than a decade of bitter warring over development plans - both in and out of court - the 215-acre, ecologically rare Herring Creek Farm in Edgartown was sold this week for a record $64 Million.

The new owners of the storied Great Plains farm include The Nature Conservancy, the FARM Institute and three private buyers.

Record Swordfish Landings

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

Fishermen, sightseers and friends filled the Menemsha docks
on Wednesday when the fishing boat Quitsa Strider II came in.
The word was out. They had hit the jackpot.

Capt. Jonathan Mayhew, 50, of Chilmark and his crew had 31
harpooned swordfish on ice aboard. It has been years since a
local fishing boat did so well. Hours later, his brother Gregory
Mayhew and his crew on the fishing boat Unicorn landed 16 of the
same.

These were big fish: Their average dressed weight was around
200 pounds.

Record Swordfish Landings

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

Fishermen, sightseers and friends filled the Menemsha docks
on Wednesday when the fishing boat Quitsa Strider II came in.
The word was out. They had hit the jackpot.

Capt. Jonathan Mayhew, 50, of Chilmark and his crew had 31
harpooned swordfish on ice aboard. It has been years since a
local fishing boat did so well. Hours later, his brother Gregory
Mayhew and his crew on the fishing boat Unicorn landed 16 of the
same.

These were big fish: Their average dressed weight was around
200 pounds.

Fishermen, sightseers and friends filled the Menemsha docks
on Wednesday when the fishing boat Quitsa Strider II came in.
The word was out. They had hit the jackpot.

Fishermen, sightseers and friends filled the Menemsha docks
on Wednesday when the fishing boat Quitsa Strider II came in.
The word was out. They had hit the jackpot.

Capt. Jonathan Mayhew, 50, of Chilmark and his crew had 31
harpooned swordfish on ice aboard. It has been years since a
local fishing boat did so well. Hours later, his brother Gregory
Mayhew and his crew on the fishing boat Unicorn landed 16 of the
same.

These were big fish: Their average dressed weight was around
200 pounds.

Fishermen, sightseers and friends filled the Menemsha docks
on Wednesday when the fishing boat Quitsa Strider II came in.
The word was out. They had hit the jackpot.

Capt. Jonathan Mayhew, 50, of Chilmark and his crew had 31
harpooned swordfish on ice aboard. It has been years since a
local fishing boat did so well. Hours later, his brother Gregory
Mayhew and his crew on the fishing boat Unicorn landed 16 of the
same.

These were big fish: Their average dressed weight was around
200 pounds.

Katharine Graham, 84, who led The Washington Post Co. to
prominence in the world of journalism and business and became
one of the most influential and admired women of her generation,
died Tuesday at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise,
Idaho.

Her death resulted from head injuries suffered when she fell
on a concrete sidewalk last Saturday in Sun Valley, where she
was attending an annual conference of top-level media
executives.

During three decades at the helm of The Post, Mrs.

Katharine Graham, 84, who led The Washington Post Co. to
prominence in the world of journalism and business and became
one of the most influential and admired women of her generation,
died Tuesday at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise,
Idaho.

Her death resulted from head injuries suffered when she fell
on a concrete sidewalk last Saturday in Sun Valley, where she
was attending an annual conference of top-level media
executives.

During three decades at the helm of The Post, Mrs.

Just five days after a moped accident in Oak Bluffs killed a
Virginia woman, another accident yesterday in Edgartown has left
a 60-year-old moped rider from Florida in critical condition
with severe head injuries.

Just five days after a moped accident in Oak Bluffs killed a Virginia woman, another accident yesterday in Edgartown has left a 60-year-old moped rider from Florida in critical condition with severe head injuries.