Police Study Landlord's Hidden Camera; Affidavit Lists Case for Search Warrant

By BRIEN HEFLER

Tisbury police are investigating whether an electrical contractor may have illegally videotaped tenants in a rented house after a hidden camera was found in a bathroom there on the morning of June 27.

Richard T. Lehman, 50, owns the property at 450 Franklin street, where a small camera was discovered by a tenant, who called the police after her son identified the device.

Wyc and Corinne Grousbeck are having a few friends to their Edgartown Great Pond home this month to talk shop.

Boston Celtics coaching legend Arnold (Red) Auerbach and his former offensive star K.C. Jones will be spinning tales about the Celtics eight-straight National Basketball Association (NBA) championship streak back in the 1950s and 1960s - educating and entertaining the Celtics' newest majority owners.

Shellfish Group Struggles with Shortfall

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

The Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group is in the midst of a financial crisis. Director Rick Karney is troubled; it means greater hardship in an already difficult business of raising juvenile shellfish.

Nantucket Asks: What's the Big Deal?

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

It was the logical next step in a business matter that began last February.

This is the viewpoint on Nantucket, where residents and elected officials are apparently mystified at last week's flap over the news that draft legislation is now circulating to study breaking up the public boat line which has been the lifeline to the two Islands since 1960.

Tisbury Police Cut Back at Steamship Terminal

By ALEXIS TONTI

The Tisbury police department has scaled back its police detail at the boat line terminal in Vineyard Haven.

The impact this will have on arriving and departing passengers is unclear; but the move comes as police face budget constraints in the new fiscal year without the guarantee of a longtime Steamship Authority reimbursement.

On the day that America celebrated its independence, and that Edgartown held the big parade, another kind of parade streamed through the tiny avenues of the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs; a tetherball tournament entertained employees of the Vineyard Yacht Club; and, by night, post-fireworks revelers flocked to Circuit avenue, sidestepping the blobs of melted ice cream left behind by toddlers before their bedtime.

It was a warm and sunny weekend, until rains came Monday afternoon; and the Vineyard took full advantage.