If Approved, Private Company Will Run Two Smaller Boats Instead,
Joining Fast Ferry
By JULIA WELLS
After a bumpy three-year journey that spawned some of the most
hostile politics in the history of the Steamship Authority, the New
Bedford passenger ferry Schamonchi will now become a surplus vessel,
boat line governors said yesterday.
Steamship Authority Sues to Block Fees:
Boat Line Seeks Superior Court Ruling
Over Hefty Falmouth Parking Fees;
Hearing Monday on Injunction
By JULIA WELLS
In a legal standoff with the town of Falmouth, the
Steamship Authority went to court this week to try to block the Upper
Cape town from imposing a set of hefty licensing fees on boat line
parking lots.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has denied a petition by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) to hold a new hearing on the much-watched sovereignty case, closing the door on the last option for the Wampanoags at the state level.
In a one-sentence ruling issued late in the day on Wednesday, the state supreme court denied the motion by the tribe to rehear the case.
The tribe will now pursue an appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
Vineyard residents enjoy good health, especially compared with the general population on the mainland. They smoke less, they are thinner and they visit their doctors regularly.
$42 Million Capital Campaign Surpasses $30 Million Mark; Leaders Say
Islanders Key to Completing Project
By JULIA WELLS
Less than six months after launching the largest
capital campaign in the history of the Vineyard, Martha's Vineyard
Hospital trustees announced this week that the drive to raise $42
million to build a new hospital has exceeded the $30 million mark.
Anthony J. (Tubby) Rebello, a well-known Oak Bluffs politician,
former selectman, town moderator, businessman and family man, died on
Dec. 5 after battling Alzheimer's disease for a number of years.
He was 71.
Caroline B. Kennedy yesterday filed a family subdivision plan to create six building lots on the stunningly beautiful and secluded 375-acre property in the township of Aquinnah that she inherited from her mother, the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Citing an unyielding trend of flat car and passenger traffic on
ferries to both Islands topped by the high cost of fuel, the Steamship
Authority board of governors voted yesterday to approve across-the-board
rate hikes aimed at collecting an additional $4 million in revenue next
year.
Beginning Jan. 1 Vineyard residents of all stripes will pay more to
travel on boat line ferries. Nantucket residents will see a combination
of fare hikes and reduced service.
Hot Tin Roof Under Agreement for Sale to Rosenthal Brothers
By JULIA WELLS
The Hot Tin Roof, the 26-year-old Vineyard nightclub that has
weathered the bumps of age alongside the baby-boomers who were its first
patrons in 1979, is slated to be sold to new owners before the end of
the year.
Barry Rosenthal, a West Tisbury resident and marketing and
communications executive who is president of B/R Creative, has signed an
agreement to buy the Roof along with his brother, Dr. Arthur Rosenthal,
a Ph.D. scientist who lives in the Boston area.
An investigation by the Committee on Finance for the United States Senate has thrust The Nature Conservancy and its conservation buyer program under a spotlight, and along with it the record $64 million sale of the Herring Creek Farm in Edgartown.
