Sewer Project Set in Tisbury

Leaders Release Four-Phase Plan for $10.2 Million Sewering, but Frigid Weather Puts Start Date in Question

By CHRIS BURRELL

The construction crew hired to build Tisbury's $10.2 million sewer system was supposed to break ground next Monday, but now there's one more problem and another likely delay: The ground might well break their shovels if they tried.

Dukes County Leaders Face Deepening Crisis, Admit Lack of Oversight

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Admitting that their own house is now in chaos, county leaders scrambled to assay the damage this week amid a flurry of charges and counter-charges following the abrupt departure of county manager Carol Borer last month. Mrs. Borer cleaned out her office on New Year's Eve and left, taking with her a check for some $22,000 in vacation pay and sick time that she had approved for herself.

High School Girls' Team Is Family Affair

By BRETT FERRY

"The amazing thing about Mary MacDonald is how she's adopted basketball as her family," says Rory Moreis, assistant boys' basketball coach. "It's amazing. She lives it. She eats it."

With both of Coach MacDonald's daughters on her varsity squad of eight girls, it seems more like basketball adopted her family.

Islanders Brave Cold to Share Concern at Prospect of U.S. War in Middle East

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

On one of the coldest days of the year, more than 170 people gathered at Five Corners for a peaceful noontime rally expressing their concern at the prospect of an American war with Iraq.

The coldest weather in years has the Vineyard in a deep freeze. Night temperatures have dropped into single digits and afternoon highs have stayed below freezing every day this week but one. Edgartown and Oak Bluffs harbors are locked up in ice.

Proponents of Wind Farm Trim Proposal for Horseshoe Shoal

By MANDY LOCKE

Cape Wind Associates erased 40 turbines from its wind farm site plans this week - freeing four square miles of Horseshoe Shoals previously staked by the private energy developer.

The announcement came Tuesday as Cape Wind officials sealed a deal with GE Wind Energy to manufacture the 130 turbines the developer now hopes to erect on 24 square miles of shallow water in Nantucket Sound.