$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.
Plans for $42 Million New Facility Set to Be Filed in Oak Bluffs;
MVC Land Use Committee Will Discuss on Monday
By JULIA WELLS
The Martha's Vineyard Community Hospital, much in the news
this year with its ambitious $42 million capital campaign, is now set to
file formal plans for a new hospital building off Linton Lane in the
Eastville section of Oak Bluffs.
Special Interest Language Was Quietly Placed in Energy Act That
Exempts Cape Wind From Public Bidding
By JULIA WELLS
The hotly debated Cape Wind project - its backers now basking
in the role of wounded underdog over a recent amendment to the U.S.
Coast Guard authorization bill - was the direct beneficiary of a
special interest provision slipped quietly into the federal Energy
Policy Act before it was signed into law last year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Predictably, the conversation begins with a string of jokes and the trademark grin that starts as a tiny twinkle in the corner of the eye and then suddenly and uproariously occupies his whole face.
Talks Between Two Key Agencies to Form One Nursing Service Approach
Time of Decision After Thirteen Months
By JULIA WELLS
Talks about a potential merger between the Island's two
visiting nurse agencies have reached a critical juncture, and the next
few weeks will determine whether the merger becomes reality or falls
apart, leaders from both agencies said this week.
