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There's nothing like a deadline to keep a project rolling full steam ahead. In this case, the deadline is a mother in law's visit. The project to be finished in time for one of the Vineyard's busiest weekends is phase one of a three year, $77 million plan to restore and enhance the former Harbor View Hotel on North Water street in Edgartown.
The bluefish are in. For at least one fisherman, the arrival was like an old-fashioned Wasque bluefish blitz.
On Monday, Ed Amaral drove to Chappaquiddick to get his line wet and perhaps catch the first bluefish of the season. While he didn't get the first one, he certainly got more than he expected.
About a week ago, Trudy Russell was sitting at her Olivetti Lettera 25 typewriter with her morning cup of coffee when the phone rang. The woman on the other line introduced herself as M.J. Munafo and told Mrs. Russell that her play, Closure, had been selected for the Vineyard Playhouse spring festival, Island Interludes.
Mrs. Russell had no idea what she was talking about.
Boat Line Bill Set for Hearing
Sleeper Legislation Would Dilute Island Control of SSA Board; Unions Back the Measure, Management Does Not
By MIKE SECCOMBE
The Steamship Authority is facing a fresh fight for its independence over union-backed attempts to change the composition of its board to dilute local representation and impose an increasing degree of state control.
Philip R. Craig, the salty Edgartown author who earned national and local celebrity status for his popular Vineyard mystery series, died on May 8 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital after a brief illness. He was 74 and had lived year-round in a renovated Ocean Heights camp with his wife Shirley.
Voter Conduct Is Neighborly
Aquinnah Annual Town Meeting Rejects Notion of Shifting Regional School Costs Over to Chilmark
By IAN FEIN
In a magnanimous sign of regional good will, Aquinnah voters at their annual town meeting this week turned down an opportunity to pass on some $74,000 in Up-Island Regional School District costs to their neighbors in Chilmark.