Trustees at the Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket hospitals this week announced their intention to join Massachusetts General Hospital and its parent company, Partners Health Care, as affiliates by the end of the year.
William Styron, the acclaimed novelist and leading literary figure of his generation whose summer home on the Vineyard Haven harbor has long been the hub of the area known colloquially as writer's row, died Wednesday at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital. He was 81.
The cause of death was pneumonia. Mr. Styron had been in failing
health for a number of years.
SSA Set to Vote on Fare Hikes Thursday at Cornell Theatre
By JAMES KINSELLA
When the Steamship Authority board of governors convenes next
Thursday morning at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, Vineyard governor
Marc Hanover anticipates voting for across-the-board rate increases to
fund next year\\\'s $78.3 million budget.
And this year, for the first time since he took the job in 1976,
superior court clerk Joseph E. Sollitto Jr. faces a challenge for his
seat. The court clerk is elected every six years in Dukes County.
Superior Court Says Decision to Deny Expansion for Hotel, Racquet
Club Was Reasonable, Not Arbitrary
By JULIA WELLS
A superior court judge ruled yesterday that the Martha's
Vineyard Commission did not stray outside the lines of its authority
when it rejected an expansion plan for Jack E. Robinson Sr.'s bed
and breakfast on New York avenue in Oak Bluffs last year.
The Martha's Vineyard Community Hospital ended its fiscal year
on a high note drenched in black ink, posting a net operating gain of
just over $1.5 million, more than double the gain posted last year
before gifts and other income. Cash reserves are also at an all-time
high at the Island's only hospital, thanks in part to a surge in
volume.
The sudden resignation of Martha’s Vineyard Museum executive director Matthew Stackpole has shaken the 85-year-old county historical society as it plots a move from its home base in Edgartown to West Tisbury.
Marking a key win for the town of Aquinnah in its long-running legal battle with James J. Decoulos and Maria Kitris, who want to open up Moshup Trail for development, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled yesterday on two separate fronts, finding:
• Mr. Decoulos has not won the right to subdivide two lots he owns off Moshup trail.
• The Aquinnah townwide district of critical planning concern is valid.
The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School budget now goes
back to the drawing board.
This is the next step following the vote in Oak Bluffs this week to
reduce its high school assessment by some $400,000. The vote capped
months of debate among Island towns over regional school assessments,
which were thrown into a state of widespread confusion because of a
14-year-old state law that for unknown reasons had never been enforced
on the Vineyard until this year.
Art Buchwald, the familiar, funny and irreverent Pulitzer-Prize
winning newspaper columnist whose decision to refuse kidney dialysis and
end his life earned him international acclaim early last year, died
peacefully at home late Wednesday night in Washington, D.C. He was 81.
