The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School football team
dominated Carver High School by a score of 44 to 25 in Friday's
home opener that featured a spectacular interception return, two
dramatic goal line stands and a steady dose of scoring by the home team,
both on the ground and through the air.
The Vineyarders improve to 2-0 on the season.
Their next game is home against Cathedral High School-Boston at 1
p.m. on Saturday.
After six months of waiting, $900 in application fees, one lost job
offer, thousands of dollars in lost salary and untold emotional strain,
a Martha's Vineyard immigration story ended happily last week. If
there is a moral to the tale, it is that the Department of Homeland
Security is a bureaucracy as easy to navigate as Cape Horn in a squall,
and despite its reputation, the Edgartown post office is not always to
blame.
Difficult Issues Confront MVC
Regional Land Use Commission Searches for Fresh Approach to Regulate
Trophy Houses, Protect Neighborhoods
By IAN FEIN
Following back-to-back Martha's Vineyard Commission meetings
that centered on the impacts that out-of-scale homes can pose on their
neighbors and the rest of the Island, leaders in the regional planning
agency are now confronting the question of what to do.
Victim in Theft, British Library Pushes for Tougher Sentence
By JAMES KINSELLA
The British Library, one of the institutions victimized by rare-map
thief E. Forbes Smiley 3rd of Chilmark, has urged the court to increase
the severity of his pending sentence.
The library, whose 1520 Apian world map was stolen by Mr. Smiley,
has called on U.S. District Judge Janet Arterton to sentence him to 78
to 97 months in prison. The government and the defense have agreed that
his sentence should range from 57 to 71 months.
How have the wind and choppy seas affected the fishing during the first week of the 61st Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby? That depends on whom you ask.
Not one taker stepped forward Wednesday to put in a bid on the
Steamship Authority's high-speed ferry, the Flying Cloud.
The lack of interest in the vessel, for which the boat line hoped to
obtain at least $5 million, is the latest chapter in the Flying
Cloud's mostly troubled six-year history at the boat line. The SSA
paid $8 million for the ferry in 2000.
Steamship Authority Considers Increasing Rates on All Fares
By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer
Steamship Authority managers plan to recommend across-the-board rate
increases of about five per cent for the coming year.
State Primary Is Tuesday; Polls Open Until Evening
By JAMES KINSELLA
The key prelude to the state election in November arrives Tuesday
with the Democratic and Republican party primaries. Polls will be open
in each of the Vineyard towns from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
As a general contractor based on Chappaquiddick, Richard S. Knight
Jr. recognizes that the Vineyard will inevitably reach a point where all
the land is accounted for and there is no more room to build.
"We're an Island, and there's only a finite amount
of land left, so eventually we'll hit buildout," Mr. Knight
said. "Sooner or later, it's going to come. And I think
we're coming down to the end of it."
Commission Declines to Review House as Development of Regional
Impact
By By IAN FEIN
After three and a half hours of debate, the Martha's Vineyard
Commission late last night decided that a proposed 15,575-square-foot
north shore home in West Tisbury does not warrant a full commission
review.
