Revised plans to replace the storied Big and Little Bridges along Beach Road in Edgartown and Oak Bluffs were unveiled this week, and Massachusetts highway officials say they are confident the design will fit the character of the Vineyard.
County engineer Steve Berlucchi presented the plans to Edgartown selectmen at their regular meeting Tuesday afternoon.
"I think we have a much better design that Island residents will appreciate," Mr. Berlucchi said. "Everybody who has seen it so far is on board."
With five seconds left in the biggest game of his life, with crazed
fans screaming at him from every direction and with everything riding on
his right foot, E.J. Sylvia delivered.
Boat Line Governor Shuns Participation
Kathryn Roessel Withdraws Partially From Selection Process for New
Term, Frankly Doubting Her Own Prospects
By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer
Quoting a legendary cowboy, a sometimes teary Kathryn A. Roessel
said Tuesday that she anticipates her time as the Vineyard Steamship
Authority governor is coming to an end.
When Lorraine Clark walks into Grace Church in Vineyard Haven on the
morning of Dec. 17, Christmas officially begins.
There, packed high to the ceiling and filling almost every available
space will be over 250 large, white bags - each one stuffed with
dozens of wrapped gifts. Each bag will be marked with its own number,
and soon people will trickle in to claim them.
An investor group headed by principals in Conover Real Estate has signed an agreement to buy the landmark Navigator Restaurant and Boathouse Bar in Edgartown from its longtime owners, the Young family.
Island Land Bank Buys West Tisbury Pondfront Under Blind Trust Cover
By JULIA WELLS
The Martha's Vineyard Land Bank Commission deliberately
concealed its identity as a publicly funded government land trust when
it bought two strategic waterfront properties in West Tisbury -
one on Ice House Pond and another on the Tisbury Great Pond.
For the first time in 13 years, there will be a new chairman of the
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). Donald Widdiss, the first
chairman to lead the tribe after it gained federal recognition in 1987,
returns to the top post after ousting incumbent Beverly Wright, 132-105,
in the tribe's annual election on Sunday.
Looking Glass: Jabberwocky Is Heading South with New Camp
By PAUL REMY
Special to the Vineyard Gazette
Jowharah Johnson enjoys dancing and having fun. Her parents
frequently take her out. But the 19-year-old African American teenager,
who has Cerebral Palsy, does not have friends to hang out with.
West Tisbury and Chilmark Selectmen Collide Over Up-Island School
Study
IAN FEIN
West Tisbury and Chilmark selectmen knocked heads this week over
whether a task force studying the Up-Island Regional School District
should consider closing the Chilmark School.
The dispute could end the task force study before it even begins,
and ultimately unravel the entire regional district, whose future is now
in question.
Committee Members Hash Out a New Vision for Superintendent
By CHRIS BURRELL
All-Island school committee members took their first crack this week
at defining the kind of superintendent they want to lead Vineyard public
schools.
Their suggestions ran the gamut. Some wanted a financial expert to
oversee an educational budget on the Island that exceeds $35 million a
year.
