High on Gay Head Cliffs, a Land Bank Beauty

New System of Trails May Result from Sale in Aquinnah

By CHRIS BURRELL

In a move that could resurrect a long-lost museum in Aquinnah and create a network of trails over a dramatic south shore seascape, the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank has agreed to buy the six-acre Vanderhoop homestead just south of the Gay Head Lighthouse.

If you tune in to one of the three new community access cable channels, the picture is clear. The background story at the fledgling television station is anything but.

Last week, the station manager at Martha's Vineyard Community Television (MVTV) quit, just 3 1/2 months after she and her two children relocated to the Vineyard from Missoula, Mont.

Sewer Box Receives Gingerbread Facelift in Oak Bluffs Test

By CHRIS BURRELL

In Oak Bluffs, gingerbread has now become a Band-aid.

After more than two years of trying to figure out what to do about the 38 sewer panel boxes that popped up all over downtown as part of the new wastewater project, town leaders have decided to road-test one solution - building a mini-cottage on top of one box.

A federal civil rights investigation of the Oak Bluffs and Tisbury schools has cited both for failing to meet the instructional needs of their growing population of Brazilian students.

The investigation was triggered by a parent complaint in November which alleged that the schools' lack of trained teachers, interpreters and appropriate materials was shortchanging Brazilian students.

Plan for Auction in Oak Bluffs Stirs Tempest: Is It Park Land?

By CHRIS BURRELL

When selectmen in Oak Bluffs first heard about the surplus land their financial team had seized for nonpayment of taxes, they saw dollar signs and quickly planned an auction as a sure-fire way to bolster town coffers with extra cash.

They stepped outside the classroom walls. They coached youth basketball and soccer teams.