Emotions ran high throughout the final night of public testimony regarding a Chapter 40B affordable housing development that, if approved, would place 20 homes on 4.9 acres of land near Tisbury's center.
Congressman Ties New Bedford to Full Pay for Any Ferry Deficit
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
If New Bedford and the state legislature want the Steamship
Authority to run ferry service between the Whaling City and the Islands,
then the port should agree to pay 100 per cent of any deficit incurred.
That was the opinion of Cong. William Delahunt, delivered bluntly in
a conversation with the Gazette yesterday morning.
Federal Business Loans Help Fire Recovery Effort
By JOSHUA SABATINI
Visiting the sandy lot on Main street where the Tisbury Inn stood
before it was destroyed in a December fire, Cong. William Delahunt
joined Tisbury officials and businessmen yesterday morning for a
groundbreaking ceremony.
Mr. Delahunt announced as part of the event that the inn's
owners, Sherman and Susan Goldstein, had received nearly $400,000 in
loans from the federal Small Business Administration to help rebuild
their landmark hotel.
At the westernmost tip of the Island just four years ago, the residents of Aquinnah knew the potential for total buildout loomed just ahead in an era of unbridled development.
Over the last decade, the community of 200 year-round residents watched development stretch the seams of the town's 4,056 acres, and they knew that the intensity and nature of new house construction threatened to devastate the rural character of Aquinnah.
Surfing Accident Leaves Visitor with Serious Injury
By MANDY LOCKE
A 51-year-old vacationer faces possible paralysis after being
thrashed against the South Beach shoreline by fierce waves Tuesday
afternoon.
George Medford of Ballston, N.Y., who had been bodysurfing close to
the South Beach shoreline with his son, snapped several vertebrae in his
neck when he struck his chin against the sand, officials said.
Deficit Crisis at Refuse District Angers Officials in Island Towns
By MANDY LOCKE
The Martha's Vineyard Refuse Disposal and Resource Recovery
district found itself on the hot seat this week as selectmen in both
Edgartown and Chilmark grappled with the six-figure hole in its books
- a deficit that the district's four member towns will
eventually be asked to carry.
SSA Bill Draws Sharp Criticism
Boat Line CEO Fred C. Raskin Warns Politicians Against Moves to
Force New Bedford Solution on the Steamship Authority
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
The newly appointed chief executive officer of the Steamship
Authority jumped into the legislative fray over the public boat line
yesterday, calling on the state Senate to take a time-out and let the
SSA develop its own business solutions - especially when it comes
to ferry service out of New Bedford.
Francis (Pat) West Jr. Dies at Age of 96: Islander, Engineer and Man
of the Sea
Francis (Pat) West Jr., a major Island personality enjoyed by all
who knew him, died at the age of 96 at his Lake Tashmoo home on July
Fourth.
Mr. West was one of the founding organizers and commodore for life
of the Holmes Hole Sailing Association, which became the sponsor of the
now well-
At Morning Glory Farm, the strawberries are gone and the peas are
in. The farm hands are filling baskets with beets, carrots and
scallions. And the potatoes are doing well.
Dan Athearn of Morning Glory Farm was busy on Saturday morning
moving lettuce onto his stand at the West Tisbury Farmers' Market.
His father, Jim, was not far away.
Conover Real Estate and LandVest Merge in Business Alliance
By JOSHUA SABATINI
In a newly formed business alliance, Conover Real Estate Inc. last
week merged with Vineyard-based LandVest, and the two upscale firms
opened joint offices in a refurbished 1850's house on South Summer
street next to the Charlotte Inn.
The merging partners are David C. Thompson, principal of the Island
LandVest office, and Gerret C. Conover and Thomas E. LeClair, principals
of Conover Real Estate.
