New Financial Pressures Hit Vineyard Businesses as Black Dog Retrenches

More Island businesses are feeling the impact of financial trouble at one of the Island's biggest and most ambitious private enterprises, the Black Dog Tavern Inc., which is still trying to recover from a $2 million drop in revenues last year.

Editorial - Support for a Tradition of Caring

Steamship Authority Board Offers Top Job to Veteran of Marine
Transport Company

By JULIA WELLS

In the end they decided to offer the job to the guy with the
battered briefcase.

\\\"There\\\'s that case again,\\\" mused Falmouth
Steamship Authority governor Galen Robbins as Fred C. Raskin set the
scarred, antique leather case on the table in front of him, just before
his final interview with the boat line board.

Editorial - Goodbye to a Shady Deal

Steamship Authority Board Offers Top Job to Veteran of Marine
Transport Company

By JULIA WELLS

In the end they decided to offer the job to the guy with the
battered briefcase.

\"There\'s that case again,\" mused Falmouth
Steamship Authority governor Galen Robbins as Fred C. Raskin set the
scarred, antique leather case on the table in front of him, just before
his final interview with the boat line board.

Steamship Authority Board Offers Top Job to Veteran of Marine

Steamship Authority Board Offers Top Job to Veteran of Marine
Transport Company

By JULIA WELLS

In the end they decided to offer the job to the guy with the
battered briefcase.

"There's that case again," mused Falmouth
Steamship Authority governor Galen Robbins as Fred C. Raskin set the
scarred, antique leather case on the table in front of him, just before
his final interview with the boat line board.

Honorable Discharge

A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs

By JOSHUA SABATINI

Monday evening the boys\\\\\\\' varsity basketball team pours out
from the locker room onto the hardwood floor and forms two lines for
pregame layups.

First year head coach Ken Sanders, in a white oxford shirt, tie and
black trousers, stands at center court watching his 12 players with a
wide smile.

He walks over to one line and stays there until he\\\\\\\'s shaken
and slapped hands with each player.

Oak Bluffs and the Commission

A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs

By JOSHUA SABATINI

Monday evening the boys\\\' varsity basketball team pours out
from the locker room onto the hardwood floor and forms two lines for
pregame layups.

First year head coach Ken Sanders, in a white oxford shirt, tie and
black trousers, stands at center court watching his 12 players with a
wide smile.

He walks over to one line and stays there until he\\\'s shaken
and slapped hands with each player.

Strange Bedfellows

A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs

By JOSHUA SABATINI

Monday evening the boys\' varsity basketball team pours out
from the locker room onto the hardwood floor and forms two lines for
pregame layups.

First year head coach Ken Sanders, in a white oxford shirt, tie and
black trousers, stands at center court watching his 12 players with a
wide smile.

He walks over to one line and stays there until he\'s shaken
and slapped hands with each player.

A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs

A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs

By JOSHUA SABATINI

Monday evening the boys' varsity basketball team pours out
from the locker room onto the hardwood floor and forms two lines for
pregame layups.

First year head coach Ken Sanders, in a white oxford shirt, tie and
black trousers, stands at center court watching his 12 players with a
wide smile.

He walks over to one line and stays there until he's shaken
and slapped hands with each player.

Eleventh-Hour Chaos Precedes MVC Final Vote on Golf Course

The Martha's Vineyard Commission last night affirmed its decision to reject the Down Island Golf Club plan, but not before a minor fracas around an unexpected eleventh-hour pitch from the Oak Bluffs selectmen to have the commission delay the final written version of the denial.

Island Community Raises Concerns Over Hospital; Board Listens in Silence

Island Community Raises Concerns Over Hospital; Board Listens in
Silence

By MANDY LOCKE

Members of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital board of trustees
listened, for the most part in silence, to an outpouring of public
concern and demands for change at a forum held Tuesday night.

Nearly 300 Vineyard residents, doctors and hospital officials
gathered in the regional high school Performing Arts Center to discuss
the current state of the hospital - spurred by the recent
resignation of hospital surgeon Dr. Richard Koehler.

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