A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs

By JOSHUA SABATINI

Monday evening the boys\' varsity basketball team pours out from the locker room onto the hardwood floor and forms two lines for pregame layups.

First year head coach Ken Sanders, in a white oxford shirt, tie and black trousers, stands at center court watching his 12 players with a wide smile.

He walks over to one line and stays there until he\'s shaken and slapped hands with each player.

A New Coach Takes Varsity Into Playoffs

By JOSHUA SABATINI

Monday evening the boys\\\\\\\' varsity basketball team pours out from the locker room onto the hardwood floor and forms two lines for pregame layups.

First year head coach Ken Sanders, in a white oxford shirt, tie and black trousers, stands at center court watching his 12 players with a wide smile.

He walks over to one line and stays there until he\\\\\\\'s shaken and slapped hands with each player.

Steamship Authority Board Offers Top Job to Veteran of Marine Transport Company

By JULIA WELLS

In the end they decided to offer the job to the guy with the battered briefcase.

"There's that case again," mused Falmouth Steamship Authority governor Galen Robbins as Fred C. Raskin set the scarred, antique leather case on the table in front of him, just before his final interview with the boat line board.

The Vineyard Gazette was named Weekly Newspaper of the Year for 2001, the highest honor given to weekly newspapers by the New England Press Association (NEPA). Also known as the George A. Speers Award, the coveted honor is given out to just three newspapers each year: one small daily, one weekly, and one alternative weekly. The Gazette has won the award six times since 1990.

Regional high school principal Peg Regan attended the boys' varsity hockey game on Wednesday, but spent much of the contest facing away from the ice.

Document Trail Reveals Patterns of Quiet Collusion During Year of Controversy Around Island Boat Line

By JULIA WELLS

Collusion: the word has surfaced more than once in recent months during a storm of politics around Steamship Authority affairs.

When Vineyard boat line governor J.B. Riggs Parker was not reappointed by the Dukes County Commission in a 4-3 vote late last year, a group of Vineyard selectmen and city officials in New Bedford cried foul, among other things accusing four members of the county commission of collusion.