Regional Formula Set for Discussion

State Education Officials Travel Here for Public Meeting on
Anticipated Changes in District Assessments

By IAN FEIN

With selectmen across the Vineyard weighing in on expected changes
to the way their towns pay for the regional school districts, education
officials from Boston will travel to the Island next week to field
questions about the state-driven shift.

In many ways, this year's Martha's Vineyard Regional
High School boys' soccer team is a study in contradictions.

While most of the players have been kicking the ball together since
they were children, coming up together through the ranks of youth soccer
and the recreation and travel leagues, other key players joined the team
only recently, after moving to the Island from other countries like
Brazil.

Movies are scheduled to return Nov. 1 to the screen of the long-dark Capawock Theatre in Vineyard Haven.

Capawock co-owner Benjamin Hall Jr. told a meeting of the Tisbury Business Association last night that renovations at the cinema are nearly complete.

Mr. Hall said the theatre has new seats and new bathrooms, and will offer improved sound. The Halls also plan to shift digital movie equipment from the Island Theatre in Oak Bluffs to the Capawock, where they plan to show digital movies once a week, he said.

Aaron Tweeten Flies Island Skies Aboard Cape Air

By SAM TELLER

As Vineyard Haven came into view thousands of feet below in the
early afternoon on a warm and clear September Tuesday, Cape Air Flight
309 veered west toward Chilmark, crossed woodsy West Tisbury, and banked
back towards Edgartown, before landing gently at Martha's Vineyard
Airport. The passengers politely applauded the pilot of the 10-seater
Cessna 402.

Shore Fishing Heats Up as Weather Cools

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School was partially
locked down Wednesday while a team of Edgartown and Oak Bluffs police
searched for a student who authorities feared might have brought a gun
to school.

Edgartown police arrested a 16-year-old sophomore in connection with
a home burglary the previous day where a handgun was stolen. He was
charged with larceny of a firearm, breaking and entering during the
daytime and larceny from a house.

There was nothing out of the ordinary about the evening of April 25,
when Renato Da Rocha, a 48-year-old Island carpenter and native of
Brazil, disappeared into thin air.

A late afternoon rain shower had come and gone, leaving the Island
cloaked in a misty fog. Mr. Da Rocha had spent the day doing exterior
work on a home on Chappaquiddick, and he caught a ride back to his home
on Curtis Lane in Edgartown from a co-worker.

Citing the need to protect Sengekontacket Pond and better understand
the effects of build-out on water quality, the Edgartown board of health
voted last month to impose a moratorium on septic system and well
permits in the Ocean Heights and Arbutus Park section of town.

The moratorium, which amounts to a ban on new construction, is in
effect for 60 days and expires Nov. 19. It may be extended by the board.

Pentagon officials are calling for additional studies to determine whether the proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound would impair a crucial missile detection radar system located on Cape Cod.

In a special congressional report released last week, the U.S. Department of Defense found that wind turbines located within the line of sight of military radar can adversely affect its ability to track aircraft and other aerial objects. The results were based largely on military tests conducted by the U.S. Air Force and United Kingdom Ministry of Defence between 2002 and 2005.