Harbor master Jay Wilbur works year-round in Vineyard Haven, the
Island harbor that never sleeps.
On Wednesday of this week, Mr. Wilbur took his boat out to explore, to check channel depths and look at boats still at their moorings.
Harbor master Jay Wilbur works year-round in Vineyard Haven, the
Island harbor that never sleeps.
On Wednesday of this week, Mr. Wilbur took his boat out to explore,
to check channel depths and look at boats still at their moorings.
In greater numbers than ever before, Islanders are looking for
- and finding - the help to get clean and sober.
Public Hearings Open on SSA
Special Task Force Headed By Retired Judge Rudolph Kass Begins Deliberations on Future Boat Line in New Bedford
By JULIA WELLS
A special state task force charged with studying ferry and
transportation problems on the Cape and Islands will hold a set of
public hearings beginning next week in New Bedford, and continuing
through the month of February on Nantucket, Cape Cod and Martha's
Vineyard.
A new plan to protect the rugged and pristine north shore of the
Vineyard is expected to be unveiled next week.
The Martha's Vineyard Arena got a huge boost this week for its
plans to improve the facility. On Wednesday, the arena received a
$350,000 donation from a charitable foundation in New Hampshire.
As home heating costs continue to squeeze consumer budgets, the
blame game also escalates.
Homeowners fault the weather - here and elsewhere - as
home heating fuel originally intended for the Northeast is diverted to
the Midwest and other regions where last summer's heat and this
winter's single-digit temperatures have spiked the demand.
Steamship Authority governors unveiled an ambitious business vision
for the 21st century yesterday that calls for a new emphasis on summer
visitors to both Islands with more passenger service, reduced car
service, streamlined high-speed ferries from distant ports and a price
tag that is potentially sky-high.
And when they exhaled from that, the boat line board voted to ink a
$1.75 million deal to buy the New Bedford passenger ferry Schamonchi.
Community Soup Supper
By COLE LOUISON
Though many shops lining the once-crowded streets of Vineyard Haven
closed months ago, the doors and kitchen of Grace Episcopal Church have
remained open.
Each Friday, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., the church hosts a winter soup
supper where anyone can sit down, have dinner and find respite from the
coldness and isolation which affect so many each Vineyard winter.
Skateboarders and their backers have high hopes for a meeting this Tuesday when board members at the Martha's Vineyard Ice Arena are expected to decide whether to lease arena land for use as a skateboard park.
