Today, the Island's new central transfer facility is doubtless the cleanest in the country.
"I was so surprised," said Catherine Thompson, director of the Chilmark Public Library. Ms. Thompson learned last Thursday that her library was the recipient of a state grant totaling $1,108,880 for expansion and renovation.
Ms. Thompson said the library trustees had applied in January to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. "I just hoped we'd make it to the waiting list," she said.
The library trustees and other town leaders have been working for years on an expansion plan.
Graduation Day
By JOSHUA SABATINI
From outside the Tabernacle Sunday at half past one o'clock, the graduates of the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Class of 2001 began their march down the center aisle as the band struck up the traditional processional music, Pomp and Circumstance.
A moment before, the graduates were milling around the Camp Ground beneath a bright June sun, faces beaming in the glories of this day.
If he's not successful in his next bid to build a luxury, private golf course in the southern woodlands of Oak Bluffs, Connecticut developer Corey Kupersmith will give the financially-strapped town just what it doesn't want - over 300 extra housing units.
Close down the Island's largest private trash hauler, the lawyers say, and you can expect chaos - garbage piling up on Island streets and businesses toppling under the weight of so much rubbish.
Dead Whale on Beach
By JOSHUA SABATINI
An object drifted toward the South Beach shoreline early Friday afternoon. Pauline Martin, who was visiting Edgartown residents Kosta and Louise George, saw it in the ocean and wondered what it was. When the object washed ashore, they discovered the answer - a male, juvenile sperm whale.
After a day, brown and green pigments dappled the once black-and-white flesh. The tail fin lost its firmness, became a yellow membrane swishing about in the breaking waves.
A four-year-old boy from Newton is this year's first confirmed case of tularemia on the Vineyard, but state and Island health officials stopped far short of sounding an alarm this week over a new outbreak of the rare bacterial infection.
New Housing Director
By JOSHUA SABATINI
Last year the average house on Martha's Vineyard sold for nearly $600,000. "Unless you are making well over $100,000, it's very difficult to even imagine owning a home here," said Philippe Jordi, the new executive director of the Dukes County Regional Housing Authority. By accomplishing many goals and using several techniques, Mr. Jordi has an optimistic vision of managing 100 affordable housing units by the year 2005.
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Meet the Valedictorian
By MANDY LOCKE
Alicia Agnoli would rather talk about the playing court than the classroom.
This soon-to-be high school graduate can discuss both with the mastery that only a four-year varsity athlete and valedictorian can. Her fans have watched her kick soccer balls, dribble basketballs and serve tennis balls, but this weekend, all eyes will follow Alicia to center stage as she delivers her valedictory address.
Cape and Islands state Rep. Eric T. Turkington was in no mood to mince words Tuesday at a committee hearing on Beacon Hill as he openly challenged both the author and the findings of the special governor's task force report calling for an overhaul of the Steamship Authority board of governors.
