A Massachusetts Land Court judge last week dismissed the central claim in a complicated property rights case that centers on an attempt by a group of developers to open up access to a vast area of landlocked lots off Moshup Trail in Aquinnah.

Governor Files SSA Bill
By JULIA WELLS

Acting Gov.

This time around, the gloves are coming off. That is the word that's been quietly circulated for the last several months by spokesmen for the Down Island Golf Club, as they prepared a new plan to build a private luxury golf club in the southern woodlands section of Oak Bluffs.

Windemere Suffers Losses

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Operating losses at the Windemere Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center spiraled to $567,000 last year, triggering poor marks from auditors and raising hard new questions about whether the Island's only nursing home can ever escape the destitute financial condition that has plagued it since day one.

A small circle of senior managers at the Steamship Authority last week quietly filed an application for some $2 million in federal grant money to help launch an $8 million high-speed passenger ferry operation between the Vineyard and New Bedford, the Gazette has learned.

A selling job. Pitching the fast ferry. This is the main melody these days at the Steamship Authority, where management activities have spun into overdrive on the ambitious new service model that has been under discussion in all the port communities for the last five months.