Home Port Purchase Set for Decision

IAN FEIN and JAMES KINSELLA

For decades, the Home Port restaurant in Menemsha has been the epitome of a traditional Yankee seaside restaurant, with its lobster dinners and stunning sunset views.

On Monday night, Chilmark voters will decide whether to set aside another Yankee tradition - frugality - and buy the Home Port from owners Will Holtham and Madeline Moore for $3.9 million.

After two months of studying a scientific report documenting a severe decline in key stocks of fish from Georges Bank to the Gulf of Maine, the New

Construction on Islander Replacement Resumes at Full Tilt After Hurricane

By James Kinsella
Gazette Senior Writer

While work has resumed on the Steamship Authority's new Island Home car and passenger ferry, the vessel will not be delivered until a year from now.

The vessel, which is slated to replace the Islander on the Vineyard-Woods Hole run, originally had been scheduled for delivery next June.

With over 50 years of inter-Island competition and more than 25 years of battling for the coveted Island Cup, it is hard to believe there is a fres

With a town hall renovation project in tatters, unpaid bills stacked high and a legal expense account on empty, the question left hanging in West T