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Owner Appeals to Court in Garage Case
By CHRIS BURRELL
Oak Bluffs businessman and restaurateur Joseph G. Moujabber is headed to court to try to rescue a three-story garage that his North Bluff neighbors want to see demolished.
Mr. Moujabber's lawyer, Bruce S. Barnett - an associate in the Boston law firm of Piper Rudnick - filed an appeal last week in Dukes County Superior Court, arguing that the Oak Bluffs zoning board last month wrongly declared the garage illegal while unanimously upholding the revocation of the building permit.
Six Island educators are among the nine finalists now vying for the interim principal jobs in both the West Tisbury and Chilmark schools.
The high-speed search for school leaders comes less than a month after two principals in the Up-Island district - Elaine Pace and Carlos Colley - handed in their resignations after each serving three years on the job.
His Game of Darts Interrupted; A Night of Theatre Is Saved
By TOM DUNLOP
Fred Natusch of Vineyard Haven was playing darts at the home of a friend on Lake Tashmoo on Friday evening when the call came in from the Vineyard Playhouse. It was climbing up toward 8 o'clock, and the theatre was dark. Not in the showbiz sense of dark, as in there's no production scheduled here tonight, but in the sense of there would be a production scheduled here tonight, but the lights aren't working.
With whispers that a hundred more were waiting outside, they filled the hall, charged with the anticipation of hearing the charismatic new voice of the Democratic Party, United States Senatorial candidate from Illinois, Barack Obama, and listening as a panel of luminaries offered their views on Brown vs. Board of Education: Mission Accomplished?
Going into Tuesday's special town meeting and a crucial vote on the future of the Edgartown Free Public Library, the library trustees had two outstanding items on their wish list: strong backing from town leaders for their plan and a signed agreement with the owner of the Captain Warren House property. This week they got both.
Twenty Applicants for Principals' Positions; Board Hopes for Resolution Next Week
By CHRIS BURRELL
In a race to fill both principal seats in the two up-Island schools by the middle of the next week, selection committees are now trying to whittle 20 applicants down to half that number for the first cut.
The deadline to apply for the two jobs was Tuesday, and public interviews will take place Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, said Vineyard schools superintendent Kriner Cash.