With the tragedies of Sept.

It was no ordinary car accident that took the life of 18-year-old Eric MacLean in March.

He arrived when the Martha's Vineyard Commission was still in its early years - not yet a decade old, not yet accepted as a full member in the peculiar society known as Vineyard government. In fact, when Charles W. Clifford took over as executive director of the commission in 1982, if the commission was anything at all in the Island community, it was a point of controversy.

Vineyard SSA Governor Loses Battle to Impose $7 Million Fee on Nantucket

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Vineyard Steamship Authority governor J.B. Riggs Parker lost a skirmish yesterday in his battle against Nantucket when the Falmouth and Nantucket boat line governors voted to eliminate a complicated cost allocation policy that could have led to ruinous fare increases for Nantucket in coming years.

"It's time to put this behind us, develop a new policy and go forward," declared Falmouth boat line governor Galen M. Robbins.

US Airways Express Stops Island Flights After Oct. 15; Carrier Cites Increased Costs

By JOSHUA SABATINI

US Airways Express, in its fifth year of servicing the Island, announced Monday that Oct. 15 will be its last day operating out of the Vineyard airport.

It's already being called the "drop-and-go" approach. Eager to make the transit hub in West Tisbury center look more like just another bus stop, town and transit leaders this week agreed to trim the amount of time that buses linger on the village main street.