Boat Line Faces Decline in Revenues; High-Speed Service Meets Legal Snag

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

The plan to run high-speed ferry service between New Bedford and the Vineyard hit a major snag this week when Steamship Authority managers learned that they may run afoul of the Pacheco Act, the state anti-privatization law.

Life Amid the Grinder Pumps: Residents Adjust to New Oak Bluffs Sewer System

By CHRIS BURRELL

A few months ago, Fran Halamandaris might have shuddered at the thought of a family reunion descending on their old house in the center of Oak Bluffs.

Those were the pre-sewer days when folks in town lived in fear of flushing, worried about failed septic tanks and tidal cesspools and the sky-high cost of pumping out.

Moped Rider Hit and Injured at Blinker; Selectmen Will Consider Four-Way Stop

By CHRIS BURRELL

One day after a moped rider was hit by a car at the blinker light - the fifth accident at the crossroads so far this year - leaders in Oak Bluffs are poised to take drastic action to make one of the Island's most dangerous intersections safer.

One immediate option already on the table is a four-way stop.

Patricia Nanon: Artist's Vision Gave Dancers a Gift of Time

By C.K. WOLFSON

Seven dancers, spring-wound and fluid, prance and twirl across the unlit stage to the dissonant tones and rhythmic clamor coming from a portable CD player. In shades of gray and black they spin and pose in preparation for this weekend's season opening of The Yard.

Richard H. Pough, the groundbreaking conservationist who died Tuesday, summered near Abel's Hill for 40 years. Quietly and surely, over decades, he helped frame the discussion of conservation on the Vineyard just as dramatically as he inflenced that debate nationally.

Traffic is down, revenues are down, there's an economic downturn going on and the weather has been awful.