Aquinnah Leaders Discussing What Next After Override Fails

By JULIA WELLS

Money is tight these days in the town of Aquinnah - extremely tight - but town officials say they plan to soldier on with a drastically reduced operating budget for the current fiscal year.

For the second time in four weeks, town voters rejected a Proposition 2 1/2 override request last week.

Video Suspect Is Found Dead

No Formal Charges Were Filed, but Landlord Allegedly Spied on Vineyard Haven Tenant; an Apparent Suicide

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

A sordid Vineyard story turned tragic this week, when a local electrician who was under police investigation for allegedly videotaping a female tenant in her bathroom was found dead in his home on Wednesday night.

Richard T. Lehman, 50, lived on Franklin street in Vineyard Haven next door to a home he had rented out for many years.

Grace S. Grossman, the diminutive and crusading Nantucket Steamship Authority governor whose love and work for her island knew no boundaries, died last Thursday after a brief illness. She was 80.

"It's about the Nantucket people. I represent what the Nantucket people want," she said in an interview with the Gazette in January.

For Second Time, Aquinnah Voters Reject Budget Override; A Difficult Year Ahead

By JULIA WELLS

Voters in Aquinnah spoke - and loudly - for the second time in four weeks yesterday, rejecting a $130,000 general override to Proposition 2 1/2 by a decisive margin in a special town election.

The final count was 75-56 against the override to the state-mandated tax cap. There was only one question on the ballot. The vote echoed a special election last month, when voters rejected a $260,000 override by three votes. The final count then was 40-37.

Boatline Interim Manager Will Tackle Reservations and Ticketing Problems

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

HYANNIS - Steamship Authority governors bid a quick adieu to chief executive officer Fred C. Raskin and voted without dissent yesterday to name Wayne Lamson, their longtime treasurer, as interim general manager for the next four months.

"Wayne, it's a pleasure, thank you," said Barnstable governor and board chairman Robert O'Brien during the monthly boat line meeting held here yesterday morning.

Acting through their Boston attorney, the managing partners for the Vineyard Golf Club have been engaged in a series of quiet threats and maneuvers