The Steamship Authority continued to make money last year, though not as much as boat line managers anticipated.

Embattled County Commission Appoints Five to Airport Board

By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer

The Dukes County Commission Wednesday named five people to the Martha's Vineyard airport commission, even as a replaced airport commissioner has asked the Cape and Islands district attorney's office to investigate the matter.

Nearly two decades ago, the late Ernest J. Boch Sr. paid $600,000 for what he called "a nice little spot" on Vineyard Haven harbor.

A harborfront estate in Edgartown sold last week for $25.17 million, setting a new record for the sale of a single-family residence on the Vineyard

Even at Age 87 Grace Frye Is Madly in Love

By JAMES KINSELLA

In this pleasant living room, populated by orchids and a poinsettia and a pair of Himalayan cats, Grace Frye sits and recalls a simpler time in Oak Bluffs: of afternoons filled with hopscotch and jump rope, of five-cent ice cream cones on Circuit avenue, of the hot sounds of Louis Armstrong's band coming in at night through the ether from Chicago.

"We had a radio - it was run on car batteries," said Mrs. Frye, 87, who has lived in the town for all but six years of her life.

County Turmoil Increases As Ousted Commissioners Level Bad Faith Charges

By James Kinsella
Gazette Senior Writer

Anger continues to swirl around appointments to the Martha's Vineyard airport commission, with two commissioners questioning a series of events that delayed their swearing in - and opened the way to drop them from the commission.