Police Audit Says Another $19,000 in Fees Was Lost from
School's Accounts
By CHRIS BURRELL
Oak Bluffs police now believe that the regional high school culinary
arts teacher charged with stealing $11,000 worth of school-owned
equipment and food supplies may have also pocketed an additional $19,000
in payments that were supposed to go into a student activity account.
Police went to Edgartown District Court yesterday seeking two new
charges against Peter J. Koines: one count of larceny over $250 and a
second count of larceny by false pretenses.
Hillary Clinton's Book Signing Draws a Good-Humored Crowd
By ALEXIS TONTI
At 7:30 Saturday morning, the line of people waiting for tickets for
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's book signing had become so unwieldy
that the police department asked the Bunch of Grapes, which had been
scheduled to open at nine, to let people in early.
Rotting beams caused the collapse of a deck which injured several
people at an evening party in Chilmark last Thursday night.
Some Things Return and Others Change as Fair Gets Underway for 142nd
Time
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
As Culinary Probe Proceeds, School Leaders Are Divided
By CHRIS BURRELL
More than a month after regional high school teacher Peter J. Koines
was arrested by Oak Bluffs police and charged with stealing $11,000
worth of school-owned equipment and funds, Island school officials are
now seriously divided over how they should be responding.
It is not easy raising funds for a summer signature event.
Tonight's fireworks will be the biggest display Ocean Park
spectators have ever seen. That is the way it is every year.
Bigger and better than ever is the game plan, according to David
Kelsen of CR Pyro, the Middleton company that is responsible for the
show. He makes a living doing aerial explosions.
Maybe it's the sound: giggling, try-and-catch-me children, laughing adults, backyard party chatter.
Maybe it's the color: pastels and bright hues sprinkled over pathways and porches and suspended in mid-flight like handfuls of confetti.
Maybe it's all the smiles: people on front porch rocking chairs or strolling along walkways; everyone ready to pose for pictures and tell you their names, as if they have been commissioned to talk to strangers.
County Drops Top Job Offer
In Divided Vote, Commissioners Withdraw Offer of Manager's
Position to Laurie Perry; Search Begins Anew
By ALEXIS TONTI
Almost four months after the Dukes County commissioners selected
Laurie Perry, former administrator for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
(Aquinnah), as county manager, they voted 4-3 Wednesday night to rescind
the offer.
Deck Collapse Injures Ten in Chilmark; Island Rescue Units in Quick
Response
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
A festive summer cocktail party in Chilmark ended abruptly in chaos,
fright and injuries last night when a second story deck collapsed on a
home overlooking Clam Cove in Nashaquitsa Pond.
Boat Line Ready to Vote on Fast Ferry
By JULIA WELLS
An abrupt announcement by Steamship Authority managers early this
week that they will convert the passenger ferry Schamonchi to a private
operation led to another abrupt announcement yesterday: A license
agreement with a private operator who wants to run high-speed ferry
service between New Bedford and the Vineyard is now set for a vote next
week.
The boat line governors will take a final vote on the license
agreement at the monthly SSA meeting on Nantucket next Thursday morning.
