Under the Lights: Hoops by Night Is No Longer a Boys' Game

By CHRIS BURRELL

They call themselves the Bad Boys, but it's truly a misnomer for this undefeated basketball squad that plays two nights a week under the darkening sky of Oak Bluffs.

Building Inspector to Face Questions by the Selectmen

By CHRIS BURRELL

Less than a week after the Oak Bluffs zoning board of appeals denounced the process that permitted a controversial three-story garage to be built on the North Bluff, Oak Bluffs selectmen now intend to ask their building inspector to explain publicly how it all happened.

Video Suspect Is Found Dead

No Formal Charges Were Filed, but Landlord Allegedly Spied on Vineyard Haven Tenant; an Apparent Suicide

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

A sordid Vineyard story turned tragic this week, when a local electrician who was under police investigation for allegedly videotaping a female tenant in her bathroom was found dead in his home on Wednesday night.

Richard T. Lehman, 50, lived on Franklin street in Vineyard Haven next door to a home he had rented out for many years.

Blue Skies, Ferris Wheels, Fireworks, Bonito: the Promise of August, and Now It's Here

By MAX HART

"There will be cool nights, and the mist drifting over the plain.
New crowds will come on the steamboats bringing their cars, and all the large, glossy cars will not go to Nantucket, but some will glide ashore here. The cicada will sing, and the human race will feel lazy, and the sunny afternoons will be as timeless as space itself."

Henry Beetle Hough,
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Aquinnah Leaders Discussing What Next After Override Fails

By JULIA WELLS

Money is tight these days in the town of Aquinnah - extremely tight - but town officials say they plan to soldier on with a drastically reduced operating budget for the current fiscal year.

For the second time in four weeks, town voters rejected a Proposition 2 1/2 override request last week.

Just six weeks before the start of a new school year, principals at both the West Tisbury School and Chilmark School have announced they are quitting their jobs.

Letters of resignation from Elaine Pace and Carlos Colley forced the Up Island Regional school committee into an unscheduled meeting Friday to deal with the doubleheader of departures.

"It's fair to say this was unexpected," said Kathy Logue, chairman of the regional school board.