The Vineyard home of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis remains in family ownership and is being extensively renovated to accommodate the needs of a new generation.

Cape and Islands state Rep. Eric T. Turkington was in no mood to mince words Tuesday at a committee hearing on Beacon Hill as he openly challenged both the author and the findings of the special governor's task force report calling for an overhaul of the Steamship Authority board of governors.

Charter School Graduation

By JOSHUA SABATINI

The four were barefoot, with flower laurels on their heads as they walked down the aisle beneath the white tent to take their seats center stage on Saturday afternoon, as Aretha Franklin's Respect boomed from the sound system. Close to 200 people stood, roaring in support of Walker Blackwell, Sarah Maxner, Elana Robinson-Lynch and Indaia Whitcombe, celebrating these first graduates of the first-ever commencement day in the five-year history of the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School.

The newly restored Civil War Monument is back home in Oak Bluffs. The statue of a soldier standing atop a pedestal is as handsome as it was when it was first built, worthy of another century.

The monument was reassembled last week and while there is still much to do, the restoration project is nearly finished.

One day after the family of Eric MacLean announced they were filing a wrongful death suit against Robert Cimeno and Beach Road Moped Rentals in connection with the car crash in March that killed Mr. MacLean, state police armed with search warrants Saturday moved in on Mr. Cimeno's business and a Cimeno family residence in Oak Bluffs.

The proposed Down Island Golf Club in Oak Bluffs is now officially back in the pipeline at the Martha's Vineyard Commission with plans filed last week and an initial hearing scheduled for June 11.