Talks Begin Over Tax Case and Legal Bills
By IAN FEIN
A visibly frustrated William W. Graham told the West Tisbury selectmen this week that there is no way to resolve his costly tax case with the town unless the principal assessor and chairman of the board of assessors step aside.
"The real problem here is who is in charge," Mr. Graham said. "Because if these people are in charge, you can't win and I can't win and the town can't win."
Electric Bills Skyrocket As Cape Light Compact Signs Deal to Buy Power
By JAMES KINSELLA
Thousands of Martha\'s Vineyard residents and businesses will see their electric bills jump by 30 per cent or more by next month.
The residents and businesses are members of the Cape Light Compact, an organization formed to represent consumer interests in the deregulated power industry. The higher bills will be derived from the December meter readings.
Electric Bills Skyrocket As Cape Light Compact Signs Deal to Buy Power
By JAMES KINSELLA
Thousands of Martha's Vineyard residents and businesses will see their electric bills jump by 30 per cent or more by next month.
The residents and businesses are members of the Cape Light Compact, an organization formed to represent consumer interests in the deregulated power industry. The higher bills will be derived from the December meter readings.
Director Marks His Tenth Year Leading Chorus
By JAMES KINSELLA
In the mid-1950s in a small New Jersey town, a four-year-old boy named Peter Boak asked his parents if he could learn to play the piano.
A musical journey was starting - one that five decades later would help blend the voice of 125 Vineyarders into glorious choral sound.
On Monday and Tuesday at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, the Island Community Chorus, directed by Mr. Boak, will perform its annual holiday concert. The performances start at 7:30 p.m.
Island Pilot Killed In Airplane Crash
By JAMES KINSELLA and MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
Vineyard residents this week mourned the loss of James Rogers of Oak Bluffs, who died when his self-built aircraft crashed shortly after noon Sunday in the Manuel F. Corellus State Forest in West Tisbury.
Mr. Rogers, 55, had just taken off from Runway 6 at the Martha\'s Vineyard Airport when his Lancair 360 single-engine airplane banked toward Runway 15 and then came down in the nearby state forest.
Vineyard residents this week mourned the loss of James Rogers of Oak Bluffs, who died when his self-built aircraft crashed shortly after noon Sunday in the Manuel F. Corellus State Forest in West Tisbury.
Mr. Rogers, 55, had just taken off from Runway 6 at the Martha's Vineyard Airport when his Lancair 360 single-engine airplane banked toward Runway 15 and then came down in the nearby state forest.
Acting Vineyard airport manager Sean Flynn said Mr. Rogers did not survive the impact.
MVC Quizzes Hospital Again
Commission Questions Decision to Locate $42 Million Building at
Current Eastville Location; Study Committee Appointed
By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer
Martha's Vineyard Hospital officials said last week that no
Island site other than the current one makes sense for the construction
of a new hospital.
Last week's arrival of a Saudi prince as an inmate at the
Edgartown House of Correction is part of a continuing practice in which
the Vineyard facility has housed prisoners from off-Island.
More than a decade ago Ida (Buzzy) Gardner wrote a story about a
woman who brought small toys to young children on Martha's
Vineyard. The Santa Claus Lady was her name, and as the story goes she
"brought Christmas in tiny packages wrapped in odd pieces of paper
tightly tied with bits of ribbon."
Smells Like French Fries, Runs the Car; Earth-Friendly Biodiesel Catches
On
By BRIEN HEFLER
You've been following the car in front of you for miles. No matter where
you both go, you cannot escape a vague but persistent smell of French
fries. But nobody in the car ahead is eating anything. Hunger begins to
set in.
Blame Ralph Packer.
