Grace S. Grossman, the diminutive and crusading Nantucket Steamship Authority governor whose love and work for her island knew no boundaries, died last Thursday after a brief illness. She was 80.

"It's about the Nantucket people. I represent what the Nantucket people want," she said in an interview with the Gazette in January.

Milo Silva's name may not yet be familiar in most Island music circles, but that will change.

Retail Heads Down; For Sale Signs Rise

What These, and Other Numbers, Say About the Future of the Vineyard Is Subject of MVC Forum

By NIS KILDEGAARD

The Island economy is changing dramatically, a panel of business leaders told a forum of the Martha's Vineyard Commission last week, and in a discussion that was both frank and wide-ranging, they shared numbers to back up their claims.

Nestled in the new clearing among fields, beech trees and ponds, across the road from Brine's Pond Preserve, the remodeled and expanded 1700s Chapp

Vineyard Seniors' Bus Services Are Subject of Call for Change

By ALEXIS TONTI

Faced with changes to what they say is already an inadequate service, leaders within the Island Councils on Aging are now calling on the Vineyard Transit Authority to reform its senior public transportation program.

Acting through their Boston attorney, the managing partners for the Vineyard Golf Club have been engaged in a series of quiet threats and maneuvers