Chappy Landowners File Formal Appeal to State Tax Board

By IAN FEIN

More than two dozen Chappaquiddick landowners took their property tax disputes to the state last week, filing formal appeals of their town property assessments at the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board.

The 26 property owners are challenging the values of 46 individual parcels, currently assessed by the town of Edgartown at a total of $116 million.

Taking Cues from Nature's Design

By TOM DRESSER

Native plants are the keynote of the landscaping at Up-Island Cronig's in West Tisbury. There is woodland with viburnum, beach plum, winterberry and high bush blueberry, as well as aroria and shadbush. An intermittent wetland can be found by the parking lot drain, where beetlebung, shadbush, iris and joepye weed flourish. Native pine, sheep fescue, inkberry, switchgrass and little blue stem grow on the edge of State Road.

Questions Continue to Pile Up for Cozy Hearth Housing Plan

By IAN FEIN

The Martha's Vineyard Commission last week stepped up its scrutiny of an unusual affordable housing subdivision proposed for Watcha Path in Edgartown.

After taking almost two hours of testimony in its third public hearing session on the project, the commission sent applicant William Bennett of Chilmark away last Thursday with a growing list of questions and asked him to return with more detailed answers at another public hearing next month.

State officials who oversee the hunting and management of deer will host a rare meeting tomorrow afternoon on the Vineyard - and while there is no

Grand Slam Tests Mettle of Derby Anglers

By MAX HART

When Thomas Ronan started fishing the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby in the late 1980s, he never thought much about catching anything other than striped bass.

Jordanian School Principal Pays Visit

By RACHEL KOVAC

Ibrahim Shhab trekked across the world to arrive on Martha's Vineyard last Wednesday as part of a Fulbright program which takes school administrators from around the world and sends them to different countries to learn about education.