Dwindling state aid and rising insurance costs are fueling a regional high school budget that will cost Island taxpayers $11.6 million next year.

The Massachusetts Department of Corrections and the state Department of Public Health assigned the Dukes County House of Corrections poor marks for substandard safety and health provisions for inmates.

MVC Votes No on Gas Station

Martha's Vineyard Commission Rejects Plan for New Station on State Road Corridor, Eight Votes to Three

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

After a discussion that went well beyond the subject of gasoline prices on the Vineyard, the Martha's Vineyard Commission voted 8-3 last night to reject a plan for a new gas station off State Road in Vineyard Haven.

Post Office Studies Move for Expansion in Vineyard Haven

By JONATHAN BURKE

The Vineyard Haven post office is contemplating renovations to its Five Corners location and would like to relocate temporarily to the Tisbury park-and-ride lot.

Architect James Carlson told town selectmen on Dec. 10 that the Island's primary postal facility plans to increase its size by rearranging its own space and that of its tenants. Cumberland Farms and Muriel W. Laverty Real Estate currently rent space from the postal service.

Imagine an Island business where the pace of work, the cash flow and even the faces that come through the door remain constant all year round.

Lured back to the city he left four and a half years ago, Oak Bluffs police chief Joseph C. Carter yesterday submitted his resignation to selectmen and announced he is headed to Boston next month to take over as chief of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) police department.