Don't Start Cutting, Developers Warned
Kupersmith's Attorney, Vowing Defiance of Cease and Desist
Order, Is Told Criminal Charges Could Come
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Attorneys for the Down Island Golf Club have clashed head-on with
top state environmental officials, declaring bluntly that the developers
will not comply with the recent cease and desist order in the southern
woodlands.
Stanley Nelson: His Oak Bluffs Story Will Air on Public TV
By JESSIE ROYCE HILL
Early in A Place of Our Own, Stanley Nelson's documentary
about the African-American community on the Vineyard, his father states
that "we didn't come to Martha's Vineyard, we came to
Oak Bluffs."
Principal Advances Her Inquiry on Drugs, Asks Students' Help
By CHRIS BURRELL
Less than three weeks after she apologized for overstating the
problem of marijuana use by students on the regional high school campus,
principal Peg Regan has put the pot issue right back on the front burner
- at student council, the school committee and her monthly parents
meeting.
Mrs. Regan's approach this week was less about gauging the
magnitude of the problem and more about formulating the best response
from the school.
Exercise Caution Over Blind Trust, Commission Told
By MANDY LOCKE
Pleas to the Martha's Vineyard Commission to slow plans for
creating a blind trust came from every possible side last night -
supporters, critics and even the agency's own members.
Three of the commission's newest members opposed the formation
of such a charitable trust, and several other members demanded further
investigation before accepting gifts from the trust.
Land Bank's Chappaquiddick ‘Prize' Will Bring
Island Trail to Pond's Edge
By JULIA WELLS
The Martha's Vineyard Land Bank announced this week that it
will buy the Wasey property on Chappaquiddick, a grassy, windblown
four-acre crest that embraces the unspoiled inner shore of Cape Pogue
Pond.
For Steamship Governor, Heated Questions About Direction,
Accountability
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Amid fresh eddies of controversy swirling around the Steamship
Authority, Vineyard boat line governor Kathryn A. Roessel came under
heavy fire this week from an array of county officials - including
members of the Dukes County Commission, her appointing authority -
who demanded better communication and more accountability.
Oak Bluffs Sign Off Didn't Follow Rules
By CHRIS BURRELL
An elected Oak Bluffs town official who is employed as operator of
two municipal sewage treatment plants on the Island may have violated
state environmental and ethics laws in the process of securing a septic
permit this winter for his new house in Oak Bluffs.
Joseph N. Alosso, member of the board of health and operator of the
wastewater treatment plants in Edgartown and Oak Bluffs, denies any
wrongdoing.
Draft Report Eyes Airport
An Early Look at Project Plans Sees No Environmental Hurdle to
Runway Improvements, New Terminal, Jail
By ALEXIS TONTI
The Martha's Vineyard Airport commissioners this week
previewed a document that will be critical to the approval, by both
state and federal officials, of long-range plans for development at the
airport and on its surrounding property.
No Standbys: At SSA Docks, Winter Season Brings a Hush
By C.K. WOLFSON
Early morning: The landscape has turned to gauze; the snow, white
static in wind-driven billows, erases the harbor, leaving only the
illusion of distant masts - faint vertical slivers among the flows
of harbor ice.
As their town grows, Chilmark municipal employees are playing a game of musical chairs at the old Menemsha School.
In November of 2001, when the town library staff needed a place to work while their building underwent $2.4 million in renovations and expansion, the Menemsha School became their temporary home.
No sooner was the library done last June than town hall employees moved in, as their own building went through a $1.5 million upgrade. They expect to be in the school until mid March.
