Forced to choose the assessment method that is most likely to gain the needed approval - or else face the possibility of entering the next fiscal year without a budget - the regional high school district committee voted Monday to continue using the long-held enrollment-based formula in the regional agreement, rather than the "statutory" formula put forward by the state.

Aquinnah Voters Approve Town-Tribal Land Use Pact, Possible Alcohol Sales

By IAN FEIN

Opening a new chapter in the sometimes strained relationship between the town and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), Aquinnah voters at a special town meeting last night endorsed a land use agreement that will attempt to resolve a longstanding jurisdictional dispute for the two governments.

Town-Tribe Pact on Land Use Comes to Vote Next Thursday

By IAN FEIN

A much-debated land use agreement between the town and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) will come back before Aquinnah voters at a special town meeting next week.

They hustled, they fought for rebounds and they battled through a tenacious full court press, but in the end the boys' basketball team just couldn't match a larger and quicker team from Scituate Wednesday, falling 73-41 in the second round of the Division 3 south region state tournament.

Earlier in the week, the Vineyarders overcame a first half deficit against a talented team from Carver to win their first round playoff game at home, before going on the road to face the 18-2 Scituate juggernaut.

The discovery last week of a dead mink on the side of an Edgartown road has brought on a furor of questions over whether a mink population still ex

To those sitting in the booths near the lunch counter during one of the final trips of the ferry Islander, the usual docking announcement over the public address system was utterly indecipherable.

Wah, wah ,wah, it went. It didn't matter; people know the drill.