Aquinnah Officials Ask for Public Input on How to Raise Revenues, Hold Taxes

By JULIA WELLS

How to boost revenues without raising property taxes in the second smallest town in the commonwealth - Aquinnah selectmen will tackle the topic at a public meeting this week.

The selectmen voted to schedule the special session during their regular board meeting last week.

School Committee Meets Tonight; Bus Company Threat Is the Topic

By CHRIS BURRELL

Faced with a school bus company that wants to back out of its contract to transport Island schoolchildren, school leaders are expected tonight to issue a stern warning to Island Transport Inc. if they don't roll the buses come September.

"It's a breach of contract as far as we're concerned," Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash told the Gazette yesterday.

Old land use battles were a silent backdrop last week when the Martha's Vineyard Commission had its first look at a new bank project now planned for the site of the former Nobnocket garage in Vineyard Haven.

Postscript to Possible Dreams: Added Prize Raises Final Total

By ALEXIS TONTI

In an unexpected turn following the annual Possible Dreams Auction, one donor decided to offer two Vineyard residents the chance to buy the dream that just last Monday slipped through their fingers.

A fleet of 11 of the world's most famous sailboats converged on Edgartown harbor this weekend for the annual 12-Metre regatta.

Interim Manager at Woods Hole Started Out at the Ticket Window

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

His first summer job was in a hardware store where he learned how to fix screen doors.

Today at age 53, Wayne Lamson has been called on to fix something bigger than a screen door - way bigger - but those who know the soft-spoken, highly capable Steamship Authority treasurer think he is more than up to the job.

For the fifth time in three decades, this week Mr. Lamson stepped in as interim general manager of the SSA.