County Commissioners Face Decision On Three-Year Appointment to SSA

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

The Dukes County Commission faces a crucial battle this week that will set the course for Island policy at the Steamship Authority in the years ahead, as it prepares to appoint a Vineyard boat line governor at a special meeting Wednesday night.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the community room of the Oak Bluffs School.

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Red Stockings Fill with Spirit Of the Season

By ALEXIS TONTI

The Gazette library seems to have files on any topic. Some are slim (Finnish prefabs, for example). Others are so fat they have spilled over into second and third envelopes. The Red Stocking file is just such a case. The envelopes are thick with clippings and creased from use. They have surprising weight in the palm of the hand.

Officials in Tisbury and Oak Bluffs Say They're Willing to Rejoin Refuse District

By MANDY LOCKE

Tisbury and Oak Bluffs selectmen voted Monday afternoon to rejoin the Martha's Vineyard Refuse Disposal and Resource Recovery District as customers if the district completes negotiations to build a composting facility.

The decision could bring all the Island's trash to a single facility for the first time since eight and a half years ago, when Oak Bluffs and Tisbury pulled away to start their own transfer station at the Oak Bluffs landfill.

"You should have seen their faces at the end of the testing," said regional high school history teacher Corinne Kurtz. "They were skeletons."

Beginning next year, the Field Gallery will be under new management. Chris Morse and his wife, Sheila, owners of the Granary Gallery, will manage the 31-year-old gallery across the street from Alley's General Store in the heart of West Tisbury.