Pennywise Path Development: Pressure from Many Directions

By MANDY LOCKE

Neighbors are pleading for restraint, Edgartown officials are urging
confidence and regional planners are demanding more answers.

Pressures are coming from many directions as Martha's Vineyard
Commission members scrutinize the Pennywise Path Project - the
most ambitious affordable housing project proposal to hit the Vineyard.

Huddling under what served as a gigantic umbrella, graduating senior Mario Spindola looked out from inside the Tabernacle before Sunday's high school graduation and could only smile. "It's a great day," he mused, his eyes scanning the growing crowd. "Too bad it's raining."

A California woman who owns a spectacular property overlooking the ocean in Chilmark has been told she can't rent the spot out for any more weddings. Jacqueline Carlin said she feels she has been unfairly treated and needs the rents to keep ownership of her property.

It is not unusual in Chilmark for property owners with postcard views to rent their property. But Ms. Carlin pushed the edge when she established a web site on the Internet and began marketing her land as Martha's Vineyard Great Gatsby Estate and, as an absentee property owner, began booking weddings.

When it comes to competition among the bar-keeps and restaurant owners on the Oak Bluffs harbor, the gloves have definitely come off.

MVC Powers Eyed by Court

Did the Commission Correctly Act in Refusing Gas Station? Is There
‘Tunnel Vision'? Judge Will Decide

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

The unique power of the Martha's Vineyard Commission to hear
evidence, weigh facts and use judgment in deciding whether to approve or
deny development projects went on trial last week in the Tisbury Fuel
Services case, which will now go to a superior court judge for a
decision.

West Tisbury Republican Plans to Topple Eight-Term Legislator

By CHRIS BURRELL

He's a Spanish teacher at the regional high school and a
part-time farmer who wakes at 5:30 every morning to feed the sheep and
collect eggs on a family farm off Lambert's Cove Road in West
Tisbury.

New Hospital's Final Number: $41.8 Million

By JULIA WELLS

The new number is $41.8 million. The final number. Leaders at the
Martha's Vineyard Hospital now say this is what they must raise or
borrow in order to replace the decrepit building that houses the
Island's only hospital.

120 at MVRHS to Go on to Post-Secondary Study

By BRIEN HEFLER

On Sunday, the class of 2004 at Martha's Vineyard Regional
High School will graduate. Said to be bright, hardworking and proactive,
the class of 189 will shed backpacks and combination locks for gowns and
mortarboards and enter the outside world, one that was hard to ignore
during their school years.

Some Transitions, New Faces as Farms Stand Ready for the Growing
Season

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By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

Vineyard farmers are primed for the growing season. The soil is
properly watered and now it is time for some serious sunshine.

Graduating Class at Charter School, Four Strong, Is Confident,
Motivated

By C.K. WOLFSON

It took them six months to come to a consensus about the music to
choose, but on Saturday morning, dressed in white and blue, garlands in
their hair, they will stroll in to the sound of Dreams, by the
Cranberries, and when the ceremony concludes, walk out to the Beatles
singing, In My Life.