Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven and West Tisbury town officials received their marching orders this month - recommendations for steps these I

Edgartown Project Concludes in Time for Return to Classes

By MANDY LOCKE

The white classroom trailer that was parked in front of the Edgartown School for the last year is finally gone. A few small piles of debris remain where the hallway connecting the 1929 brick school building and the gymnasium once stood. A handful of construction workers is completing an awning covering the new school's entrance.

Capital Boost Needed at Katama Farm

By MANDY LOCKE

After a superior court judge denied initial efforts by a group of neighbors to evict FARM Institute from Katama Farm, questions remain about the condition of buildings at the town-owned farm.

Katama Farm - nearly 200 acres of sweeping grassland cradled in the middle of the town's densely settled south shore community - has seen better days. Wear and tear brought on by a string of failed operations over the last 24 years have left this facility's barns and silos in a state of disrepair.

In the face of federal laws which leave local zoning regulations powerless, West Tisbury officials are grappling with one of the first of a likely

NANTUCKET - Walter Beinecke's name is spoken with a sense of awe and an undercurrent of resentment.