Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs shellfishermen saw a banner start to the bay scalloping season, and they share their reason why: Lagoon Pond.

Derek Cimeno, shellfish constable for Tisbury, is watching shellfishermen surrounded in bay scallops. "Six hundred bushels of bay scallops were taken in the first two days by family shellfishermen," Mr. Cimeno said.

Unionized mental health counselors at Martha's Vineyard Community Services hesitated this week - delaying a possible move to strike while awaiting

It started two weeks ago when one of the four underwater cables providing electricity to the Vineyard failed somewhere between Falmouth and West Chop.

Then, last Saturday, a second cable failed.

The executive director of the Seafarers' Friends told a group of Islanders on Wednesday night he is working on a plan to leave a sizable portion of the Goldberg Fund to the Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard.

Emotions Run High at Two Island Meetings:
Regional School Committee

By CHRIS BURRELL

See also: Vineyard Community Services

Land Court Upholds Power of MVC To Review 40B Housing Projects

Developer of Golf Club Will Appeal

By JULIA WELLS

Gazette Senior Writer

For the second time in less than two years, yesterday a Massachusetts Land Court judge ruled that the Martha's Vineyard Commission has full power of review over low and moderate income housing projects under Chapter 40B, a section of state law commonly known as the anti-snob zoning statute.