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Showing the Colors Down-Island: Reports from Three Main Streets
By C.K. WOLFSON
The day was a reprieve from the lurch and jolt of national news which often blurs patriotic instincts and makes us struggle for balance.
Independence Day: steady, reliable, served up in primary colors, ornamented in blue skies, balloons and family reunions. It is an occasion whose tradition and provenance singularly belong to the United States, to be celebrated collectively, a festive reminder of the precepts and privileges of our democratic system.
Changes Could Threaten Plan for Housing, MVC Is Warned
By MANDY LOCKE
As the Martha's Vineyard Commission (MVC) concluded its review of a 60-unit affordable rental development in Edgartown, town leaders warned commissioners that tampering with the proposal would jeopardize the project.
"Some conditions placed on this could delay or kill the project," Alan Gowell, a member of the Edgartown affordable housing committee, told commissioners Thursday night.
Court Will Decide a Land Bank Issue
By ALEXIS TONTI
An ongoing tax dispute between the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank Commission and the West Tisbury board of assessors has now landed in front of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals for a ruling that will set a precedent for how the conservation agency conducts its land transactions Islandwide.
For Some, Fog Ruins Rockets' Red Glare; It's Just a July Thing
By ALEXIS TONTI
How Islanders rated this year's July Fourth fireworks display all depended on their point of view - quite literally.
The Fourth of July parade Sunday was bigger, better, earlier.
Draft Legislation on Boat Line Break-Up Prompts Furor and Charges of Bad Faith
By JULIA WELLS and ALEXIS TONTI
An underground group that wants Nantucket to break away from the Steamship Authority is now circulating draft legislation on Beacon Hill to establish a commission to study splitting the public boat line in two.
The group is led by Nantucket SSA governor Grace Grossman, a well-entrenched Democrat with powerful connections in the state house.