Students Join Caribbean Dance
By ALEXIS TONTI
From a seat facing Monty Thompson's Caribbean dance class at
The Yard, it is easy to distinguish the students from the
members of the Caribbean Dance Company. They are separated by
degrees of flexibility, of confidence versus hesitance - the
difference between being on the beat or a fraction of a step
behind.
After a time, however, three girls emerge as occupants of an
undefined middle ground. During warm-up they stand in the front
row, a spot others look to for guidance; but then Mr.
Despite winning unanimous approval from the Martha's Vineyard
Commission this spring, a plan to build a youth tennis center near
the blinker light in Oak Bluffs now faces an uphill battle to win
approval at the town level.
By 4:30 p.m. Sunday, the cars that usually line Main street
and Union street in Vineyard Haven were gone. One hundred and
twenty-five booths lined the two streets instead, and by 6:30 p.m.,
with the official start of the Tisbury Street Fair, waves of people
filled downtown.
Entering the street fair from any direction revealed a scene
of excitement and smiles.
SSA Traffic Slips
By JULIA WELLS
Early summer passenger traffic on the Steamship Authority's
newly acquired New Bedford ferry Schamonchi is down compared
with last year, even though the boat line has launched an
advertising program to boost ridership on the ferry.
"We're off," said boat line treasurer Wayne Lamson
yesterday.
Passenger traffic on the Schamonchi is down 18.6 per cent
for the month of June compared with last year, but Mr.
On Night Patrol in Edgartown
By MANDY LOCKE
It's 10 o'clock on Friday night in Edgartown. Kids with ice
cream cones and fathers with strollers disappeared from Main street
hours ago. A sea of 20-somethings and 40-somethings who dream about
being 20-something again has replaced the crowds of families
shuffling through the streets of downtown.
Women glide down the brick sidewalks in runway fashion in
their newest brightly colored tank tops. Men trail them, staking
claims early. One cannot mistake a certain urgency in the crowd's
pace.
Three hours after renting a moped in Oak Bluffs Saturday morning, 30-year-old Katherine D. Miller tried to round a right curve on Beach Road near Harthaven, lost control of the moped and struck an oncoming car.
Investigations continue as state and local fire officials pursue the exact cause of the fire and explosion that cut Edgartown's Independence Day fireworks display short last week.
Transportation Chairman Speaks
By JULIA WELLS
This will not be a rush job.
That was the word yesterday from Rep. Joseph C. Sullivan
about the new legislation now under consideration to
dramatically change the Steamship Authority board of governors.
"This is a serious issue that needs to be studied and
evaluated in a serious way, and it will be," said Mr. Sullivan,
a Braintree Democrat who is co-chairman of the Joint Committee
on Transportation in the Massachusetts legislature.
It's one thing to hire cashiers, clerks and ice cream
scoopers, train them and trust them for a summer's worth of
work. But try hiring 42 summer cops, training them, handing them
guns and putting them on the street.
Scientists cast a wide net this week in the search for clues to why a rare disease called tularemia has a foothold on the Vineyard. They drew blood samples from landscapers, dragged for dog ticks and trapped rodents.
