Votes on School Budget Refuse District Purchase Come Before Two Towns

By MIKE SECCOMBE and JULIA RAPPOPORT

The approval of extra money to fund the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School budget will be recommended to Edgartown and Chilmark voters alike, but the prospects for the approval of more than $1 million to buy land to expand the regional refuse transfer station are looking less certain for at least one of this week's special town meetings.

Commission Delays Vote on Oyster Bar

Land Use Subcommittee Recommends Against Oak Bluffs Eatery Expansion, Leaving Full Commission in Doubt

By IAN FEIN

The Martha's Vineyard Commission last Thursday unanimously approved a downtown Edgartown subdivision and a members-only tennis and racquetball club off State Road in West Tisbury.

It was the kind of early summer afternoon that was made for baseball.

The smell of freshly cut grass blended with that of grilling hots dogs and hamburgers during the Vineyard Little League championships at Veira Park on Saturday, while the dust kicked up by the infielders was quickly cleared away by a swiftly moving ocean breeze.

Island Plan Moves Ahead with Forums to Provoke More Public Involvement

By IAN FEIN

Roughly 200 new homes are built on the Vineyard each year, many of them out of scale with surrounding neighborhoods or sprawling into once rural and open areas.

Eelgrass beds, which provide breeding habitat for fish and shellfish, have nearly disappeared from Edgartown Great Pond and Sengekontacket Pond in the last decade, and have decreased alarmingly - by over 50 per cent - in Tashmoo and Lagoon Ponds.

After a standoff lasting four years, the Steamship Authority and one of its major maritime unions are expected to have a new workplace contract within a month.

Agreement between boat line senior managers and the Marine Officers Beneficial Association, which represents some 230 unlicensed deck hands, was reached last Friday night, after two days at the table with a state-appointed fact finder.

Boatline and Key Union Find Accord on Contract

By MIKE SECCOMBE

After a standoff lasting four years, the Steamship Authority and one of its major maritime unions are expected to have a new workplace contract within a month.

Agreement between boat line senior managers and the Marine Officers Beneficial Association, which represents some 230 unlicensed deck hands, was reached last Friday night, after two days at the table with a state-appointed fact finder.