Who needs Broadway when you live year-round on Martha's Vineyard?

Looking back over 2002, the Island's economy showed strength during a year of uncertainty and possible war.

When campers from the Vineyard's own Camp Jabberwocky went on an unusual tour in Canada this year, their slogan was a single question that was at once jocular and earnest. "How's your news?" they inquired in on-the-street interviews with everyday people.

As the year 2001 comes to a close, it is perhaps an apt question for the Vineyard: How's our news?

This is how it was:

Powerful state legislators on a hostile mission to take over the Island ferry system.

Looking across Vineyard Sound from Woods Hole it’s hard to imagine that Vineyarders could have anything to wish for in the coming century.

Houses were sold as soon as they came on the market, listings under $200,000 became an endangered species, and building lots were almost as hard to