Gas Pump Prices on the Vineyard Top Most Other Places in America

By MANDY LOCKE

Islanders have endured another summer of steep prices at the gas pump. Another season of shelling out more bucks to get from here to there than Americans across the nation. Another year of trying to figure out how fuel prices managed to jump about 41 cents a gallon in the five-mile trek across the Sound.

Attack Targets SSA Members

New Bedford's George Leontire Demands Resignation of Board; Former City Solicitor Attempts to Dismiss Boat Line Lawsuit

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

The former New Bedford city solicitor, who is now weighing his own appointment to the expanded Steamship Authority board of governors, condemned all three voting members of the board yesterday and called on them to resign.

She works 25 hours a week at a retail store in Vineyard Haven. And she's doing her best to plow through a thousand pages of Anna Karenina in time for advanced placement English class, which starts just over a week from now.

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Oil Spill in Edgartown Harbor Kills Million Baby Oysters and Fouls Waters

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

An oil spill of unknown origin sullied the pristine water of the outer Edgartown harbor yesterday, ruining an entire crop of juvenile shellfish at a hatchery owned by the Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group and posing a possible threat to the rich bay scallop beds off the north shore of Chappaquiddick.

Oak Bluffs Approaches Buildout Deadline

By MANDY LOCKE

It all happened without too much fuss.

Now, that's all the town of Oak Bluffs and Island residents can manage to do as the town gets down to the wire - down to the last unspoiled expanses of developable land in the 4,555 acres that make up Oak Bluffs.

"It snuck up on us," said Oak Bluffs resident Renee Balter. "But we've had a steady stream of development. Buildout is occurring at a rapid, rapid pace."