Oak Bluffs Water Has Chlorine Boost

By CHRIS BURRELL

The tap water in Oak Bluffs has tested clean for a week now, but the chlorine added to combat bacteria levels detected early last month has left town water tasting and smelling like a swimming pool.

"The chlorine is very strong, and it's not pleasant," resident Selena Roman told the Gazette yesterday. "We typically drink tap water, and we're not drinking it now. It's horrible."

Taylor Toole's Film Will Appear in Boston Festival, Island Theatres

By MANDY LOCKE

Fourteen months ago, when he was begging and borrowing his way through 12 grueling days of directing his first film on Martha's Vineyard, Taylor Toole had doubts about finishing the project.

Let alone making it onto a selective list of short features premiering at the Boston Film Festival this weekend.

The shed behind the Tisbury Marketplace was built to house the construction of Rebecca back in 1997. The shed was just big enough to accommodate the schooner as her builders laid the keel, sawed out the frames and installed the bowsprit and boomkin that would help fasten her spars and rigging to hull and deck.

Tabernacle Requires More Fixes; Architects Call for a New Roof

By CHRIS BURRELL

The bill to restore the Tabernacle was supposed to run just $1 million and cover the basics: new stained-glass windows, re-flashing the roof and a serious scrape-and-paint job of the rusting iron structure.

But three years after mounting an ambitious fund-raising campaign to pay for the project and start up an additional endowment fund worth $1 million, leaders in the Camp Ground now say they need almost twice the money to do the job right.

It was a reverent and quietly momentous occasion.

Traffic was down, but parking tickets were up. The weather was changeable; ditto for the restaurant and retail business.