This Season, Behind the Retail Counter, Multiple Languages (and Some Confusion)

By CHRIS BURRELL

Rafata Jabri, a Jordanian-born pastry chef in Oak Bluffs, knows all about turning flour, butter, sugar and eggs into delectable treats, but some other ingredients in the bakery are driving him a little crazy - a polyglot of Portuguese, Czech, Bulgarian and even Scottish brogues.

They are the languages and accents heard from his work force at Martha's Vineyard Gourmet Cafe and Bakery in downtown Oak Bluffs.

Chilmark School Work Nears Completion, But First Days' Classes Will Be Elsewhere

JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

Repairs at the Chilmark School will not be completed in time for opening day, and yesterday school and town leaders were busy with last-minute arrangements for an alternative site for the children to attend school.

Opening day is Thursday for all five elementary schools on the Vineyard.

Putting aside for the moment concerns about potential costs involved in expanding their century-old library, Edgartown residents yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favor of purchasing an adjacent property.

Tisbury Grudge on Police Pay Will Get New Hearing at SSA

By ALEXIS TONTI

A muddled Steamship Authority policy remained in the spotlight over the weekend, as the Vineyard boat line governor took a position in the debate about payments by the SSA for police details in the port towns.

The Aquinnah planning board will seek criminal charges against two seasonal residents and a local landscape company who topped a large swath of trees off Lobsterville Road without permission this summer.

The cabins are a topple of blankets and mattresses, the last of the tents is being taken down, and remnant odds and ends have been packed in boxes