Amid growing concern that a MassHighway plan to build a temporary drawbridge will threaten the health of Lagoon Pond, Island residents are calling for Oak Bluffs and Tisbury to speak with one voice when it comes to confronting state officials about the replacement for the 68-year-old bridge.

By Unanimous Vote, Rejection

A Key Subcommittee Turns Down Southern Woodlands Plan, Citing Detriments That Outweigh Benefits

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Capping months of scrappy combat with the former developers of the Down Island Golf Club, a key subcommittee of the Martha's Vineyard Commission voted without dissent this week to recommend that a massive housing project in the southern woodlands be denied.

The search continues this morning in Oak Bluffs harbor for the whereabouts of Michael F. Landfear, 54, of Falmouth.

Mr. Landfear was last seen Tuesday night heading out on a small rowing pram to a boat moored in the harbor. U.S. Coast Guard, state and local police, together with public safety volunteers from three Island towns searched all day yesterday without result.

Red Sox fever has descended on the Island. At Bert's Barbershop in Vineyard Haven, there is division over what team to support in the race to the World Series. Wayne Ferreira, a barber from Falmouth, is a Red Sox fan. So is Phil Combra, the owner - though "I used to be a Yankee fan, I am a Red Sox fan now. I changed 15 years ago."

Tisbury Grants Administrator a Raise, but the Search for Successor Has Begun

By ALEXIS TONTI

After months of delay, denials and appeals, the Tisbury personnel board this week granted the town administrator a four per cent salary increase. But the news was bittersweet for town administrator Dennis Luttrell: Just the week before, the selectmen agreed to form a search committee to seek his successor.

High nitrate levels found in the private wells of a few Edgartown homes off West Tisbury Road sent health officials scrambling this week - trying t