Close down the Island's largest private trash hauler, the lawyers say, and you can expect chaos - garbage piling up on Island streets and businesses toppling under the weight of so much rubbish.

If he's not successful in his next bid to build a luxury, private golf course in the southern woodlands of Oak Bluffs, Connecticut developer Corey Kupersmith will give the financially-strapped town just what it doesn't want - over 300 extra housing units.

Graduation Day
By JOSHUA SABATINI

From outside the Tabernacle Sunday at half past one o'clock, the graduates of the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Class of 2001 began their march down the center aisle as the band struck up the traditional processional music, Pomp and Circumstance.

A moment before, the graduates were milling around the Camp Ground beneath a bright June sun, faces beaming in the glories of this day.

"I was so surprised," said Catherine Thompson, director of the Chilmark Public Library. Ms. Thompson learned last Thursday that her library was the recipient of a state grant totaling $1,108,880 for expansion and renovation.

Ms. Thompson said the library trustees had applied in January to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. "I just hoped we'd make it to the waiting list," she said.

The library trustees and other town leaders have been working for years on an expansion plan.

Today, the Island's new central transfer facility is doubtless the cleanest in the country.

Revealing new details in the investigation into the March car crash that killed 18-year-old Eric MacLean, a police affidavit filed last week in Edgartown District Court unleashes an array of allegations that a Tisbury taxi operation and a car and moped rental business are involved in a counterfeit inspection sticker scam that extends far beyond the fatal crash.