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General Manager Appointment Expected at SSA Meeting Today

By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer

Wayne Lamson, tapped five times to head the Steamship Authority on a temporary basis, will be put forward today as the best choice for general manager for the boat line.

At the monthly SSA meeting in Woods Hole this morning a search committee plans to recommend that Mr. Lamson be appointed to the top post, according to a source.

There are the reverberating smacks of the basketballs bouncing off the wooden floors, the squeaks of rubber soles starting and stopping in tandem,

Words and emotions filled the air Monday night, when some 350 people packed the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Performing Arts Center to air their views about the controversial Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound.

Opinion split nearly straight down the middle among the 50-plus people who spoke at the public hearing, from local fishermen to high school students to powerful politicians. All spoke with passion and conviction.

Youth-Led Initiative Sparks January Opening for Teen Center in Historic Cottagers Corner

By JAMES KINSELLA

Vineyard teenagers are about to have a solid solution to that perennial complaint that there's nothing to do.

The Island's first teen center in more than 15 years is slated to open in mid-January in the Cottagers Corner building in downtown Oak Bluffs.

Ping-pong, pool tables, computers and lots of couches - that's what the new center is banking on to draw teenagers.

School Board Picks Mainland Educator for Interim Position

By IAN FEIN

The All-Island School Committee unanimously selected Dr. Paul Dulac, a former school superintendent from Newburyport, as the next interim superintendent of Vineyard schools yesterday afternoon.