End of an Era: Scottish Bakery Closes for Good

How many pounds of flour, how many pounds of sugar, how many pounds
of butter have passed through this place in the last 37 years? How many
scones, how many shortbreads, how many jars of beach plum jelly, how
many rhubarb pies?

No one ever counted. And no one ever wrote down the recipes.

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SSA Ferry Plan Absent Money

Last week's report calling for high-speed ferry service
between New Bedford and the Vineyard was submitted without any financial
information, and the acting general manager of the Steamship Authority
said yesterday that he will now have to step in to finish the crucial
financial piece of the report.

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Special Conservation District Declared for Menemsha and Nashaquitsa Ponds

Following a late-night discussion that grew cranky at times,
the Martha's Vineyard Commission voted narrowly last week to
designate a district of critical planning concern for the
shorelines of two shellfish-rich ponds in Chilmark.


The vote was 9-6 to approve the Menemsha and Nashaquitsa
Ponds DCPC.


Jennie Greene, the appointed member of the commission from
Chilmark, fought bitterly to block the DCPC.


"I think this is a slam-dunk that a couple of people put
together.

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Task Force Meets on Cape

Task Force Meets on Cape

By JULIA WELLS

MASHPEE - A chorus of Cape Cod politicians and residents told
a governor's ferry task force last night that they want relief
from the Island-bound traffic they believe is clogging their roads.

And leaders in the town of Barnstable demanded a full voting seat
for their community on the Steamship Authority board of governors.

"We have been the unintended victims of the growth and
prosperity on the Islands," declared Barnstable town council
president Roy Richardson.

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Hospital Leaders Brace For Prospect of Strike By Registered Nurses

Contract talks between management and nurses at the Martha's
Vineyard Hospital are now at a bitter standoff, and hospital chief
executive officer Kevin Burchill said this week that he is prepared for
the possibility of a strike.

"Everything is now off the table. We're prepared for the
worst but we expect the best," he said.

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Oak Bluffs Leader Loses Vote at MVC

Oak Bluffs Leader Loses Vote at MVC

Commission Rejects by a Wide Margin Rusczyk Push to Change
Commission On Kupersmith Housing Development

By JULIA WELLS

An Oak Bluffs selectman was rebuffed last week when he urged the
Martha's Vineyard Commission to reverse its decision to go to
court to compel a regional review of Connecticut developer Corey
Kupersmith's affordable housing project.

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MVC Defers Chappy Decision

MVC Defers Chappy Decision

By JULIA WELLS

After listening to more than two hours of bitterly divided testimony
from an overflow crowd, the Martha's Vineyard Commission postponed
a decision last night on a proposal to designate the entire island of
Chappaquiddick as a district of critical planning concern (DCPC).

"I will tell you that Chappy is a finite place, and because of
its size what happens on this island affects everything else - the
beaches, the roads, the ferry," declared Don Crocker, president of
the Chappaquiddick Island Association.

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Herring Creek Trust Files New Lawsuit

The Herring Creek Farm Trust has filed a new lawsuit against the Martha's Vineyard Commission, appealing a recent decision by the commission to eliminate a private beach association from a development plan for the farm. The 32-lot luxury home development plan for the farm was approved by the commission in November. The approval was accompanied by some 22 conditions. One condition eliminated a 250-member private beach association from the plan.

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Edgartown Trophy House Plans Stir Controversy

The jokes and gritty remarks about trophy houses and the Hamptons
have been circulating on the Vineyard for a couple of years, but last
week the Edgartown conservation commission got its first real-life
glimpse of a starter castle now planned for an unspoiled point of land
on the Oyster Pond.

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Traffic Skids on New Bedford Ferry Run


SSA Traffic Slips

By JULIA WELLS


Early summer passenger traffic on the Steamship Authority's
newly acquired New Bedford ferry Schamonchi is down compared
with last year, even though the boat line has launched an
advertising program to boost ridership on the ferry.


"We're off," said boat line treasurer Wayne Lamson
yesterday.


Passenger traffic on the Schamonchi is down 18.6 per cent
for the month of June compared with last year, but Mr.

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