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.
Charter School Graduation
By JOSHUA SABATINI
The four were barefoot, with flower laurels on their heads as they
walked down the aisle beneath the white tent to take their seats center
stage on Saturday afternoon, as Aretha Franklin's Respect boomed
from the sound system. Close to 200 people stood, roaring in support of
Walker Blackwell, Sarah Maxner, Elana Robinson-Lynch and Indaia
Whitcombe, celebrating these first graduates of the first-ever
commencement day in the five-year history of the Martha's Vineyard
Public Charter School.
