Housing Survey Issued
By MANDY LOCKE
The Island Affordable Housing Fund (IAHF) will put a face to
the Island housing crisis this summer through an extensive
information gathering effort. Islanders will notice miniature
yellow houses stationed across Martha's Vineyard to distribute
and gather responses from residents caught in the summer shuffle
of the housing crisis.
The private nonprofit group launched the project this week
with distribution of the Vineyard Rental Survey in today's
Gazette.
Class of 2001 Looks Ahead
By JOSHUA SABATINI
The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School is about to send off the largest graduation class in its history, 158 students. As every class has its own distinct characteristics, the 2000-2001 student body formed its own spirit while dealing with tragedy and triumph.
"One thing about this class is the amount of bonding that has gone on over the 12 years.
The debate may have divided residents of Chappaquiddick, but the Martha's Vineyard Commission voted unanimously last night to designate the little island at the eastern end of Edgartown as a district of critical planning concern (DCPC).
The Vineyard home of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis remains in family ownership and is being extensively renovated to accommodate the needs of a new generation.
Windemere Suffers Losses
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Operating losses at the Windemere Nursing Home and Rehabilitation
Center spiraled to $567,000 last year, triggering poor marks from
auditors and raising hard new questions about whether the Island's
only nursing home can ever escape the destitute financial condition that
has plagued it since day one.
A simple exchange of an "I" for an "O" cost the Vineyard's own Samantha Gillogly the title of National Spelling Bee Champion.
The proposed Down Island Golf Club in Oak Bluffs is now officially
back in the pipeline at the Martha's Vineyard Commission with
plans filed last week and an initial hearing scheduled for June 11.
If you like to think Island kids lead a sheltered life, that the real world for them is an ocean away, get ready to have that myth shattered by the Class of 2001, a group of some 140 teenagers who have both taken charge and taken some hard knocks.
One day after the family of Eric MacLean announced they were filing a wrongful death suit against Robert Cimeno and Beach Road Moped Rentals in connection with the car crash in March that killed Mr. MacLean, state police armed with search warrants Saturday moved in on Mr. Cimeno's business and a Cimeno family residence in Oak Bluffs.
The newly restored Civil War Monument is back home in Oak Bluffs.
The statue of a soldier standing atop a pedestal is as handsome as it
was when it was first built, worthy of another century.
The monument was reassembled last week and while there is still much
to do, the restoration project is nearly finished.
