Skateboarders and their backers have high hopes for a meeting this Tuesday when board members at the Martha's Vineyard Ice Arena are expected to decide whether to lease arena land for use as a skateboard park.

The new sewer system in Oak Bluffs was supposed to begin operating by late June, but top officials in Oak Bluffs now say there is almost no chance it will be finished by then. The project is more than a month behind schedule.

A contractor in financial crisis is to blame. Workers abandoned the site at the old landfill for most of the last three weeks, leaving the bulk of the treatment plant phase of the job undone.

A short-term land deal cut by the regional high school committee Monday night has flung open the starting gates on an ambitious $6-million plan to build an addition to Martha's Vineyard Community Services (MVCS), doubling the space at the social services agency.

Teachers who do their math might be smiling this week, knowing that their new salary contract will boost wages by as much as 27 per cent over three years, turning today's $50,000 job into a $63,893 position by the fall of 2003.

The Brickmans, Cronigs and Levines are recognized as the earliest Jews to settle on Martha’s Vineyard, but if Ken Libo’s research findings turn out