SSA Management Sets a Course for Collision on Security Measures

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Turning a deaf ear on the growing uproar among Islanders over a controversial new policy that will bar people from staying in their cars on board ferries, senior managers at the Steamship Authority announced flatly this week that the policy is expected to go into effect sometime later this month.

SSA Governing Board Postpones Its Decision On New Security Rules

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Under heavy fire from the people of the Vineyard over a new policy that will bar people from staying in their cars on board ferries, a fractured Steamship Authority board of governors yesterday postponed any decision on the policy for one more month.

Signaling its own interest in a case which has attracted attention around the country, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) agreed this week to hear the Aquinnah court appeal over sovereign immunity.

Boatline Meets Amid Turmoil

SSA Board Meets for First Time Since Nantucket's Decision to Explore Secession from Authority

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Steamship Authority news has been dominated by power and politics in recent weeks, but when the boat line board of governors convenes for its monthly meeting this Thursday morning, much of the discussion is expected to center on rules - new rules for dogs, old rules for excursion travel and some rules that are top secret in the name of national security.

Chappy Land Gets Management Plan

By JULIA WELLS

It's not so much about the land anymore, it's about the people - especially the neighbors.

This is the central theme that runs through a new management plan released this week for two key properties owned by The Trustees of Reservations on Chappaquiddick.

Little changed from a draft that was released last spring, the new plan sketches the outlines for a future Cape Pogue Wildlife Refuge and Wasque Reservation that could include: