A selling job. Pitching the fast ferry. This is the main melody these days at the Steamship Authority, where management activities have spun into overdrive on the ambitious new service model that has been under discussion in all the port communities for the last five months.

Federal Agency Cites Packer Firm For Violations of Clean Air Act; Investigation Charges Release Of Tons of Toxic Pollutants

MVC Defers Chappy Decision

By JULIA WELLS

After listening to more than two hours of bitterly divided testimony from an overflow crowd, the Martha's Vineyard Commission postponed a decision last night on a proposal to designate the entire island of Chappaquiddick as a district of critical planning concern (DCPC).

"I will tell you that Chappy is a finite place, and because of its size what happens on this island affects everything else - the beaches, the roads, the ferry," declared Don Crocker, president of the Chappaquiddick Island Association.

NANTUCKET - Signaling an abrupt shift in direction on the ambitious new service model, Steamship Authority general manager Armand Tiberio said yest

Herring Creek Farm, the storied and richly diverse Great Plains farm in the rural coastal perimeters of Edgartown, is now set to be sold for a record price to an eclectic group that includes two nonprofit conservation organizations and two private buyers.

New Bedford Run Fails

No on License

By JULIA WELLS

Gazette Senior Writer

Steamship Authority governors voted without dissent last week to deny a license application from a private freight hauler to run year-round service between New Bedford and the two Islands.

"Our focus clearly needs to remain on providing for the Islands," said SSA general counsel Steven Sayers. Mr. Sayers was point man in the staff recommendation to deny the license application from Seabulk International Inc.