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...bill proposes limited access to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. "If you spent money to preserve the land and didn't restrict access, the money would be wasted," Gifford said...
...Federal land use bill sponsored by Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) would help alleviate soaring housing costs and ecological hazards on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, a former Kennedy legislative aid said at Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
...Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District is a kind of political Wimbledon where the best two out of three sets mean a winner. Roughly one-third of the district-Cape Cod and the Nantucket Sound islands-is Yankee Republican. Another third-the depressed onetime whaling capital of New Bedford-is ethnically Democratic. The South Boston suburbs stretching from Weymouth to Plymouth are fiercely independent; the candidate who can conquer them while holding his own bloc takes everything...
...group took off in two cars. Betty Santos and Jeff Lavares carried the signs in one while Studds. Hale, and Bill Guild drove in the other. It was perfect ethnic balance: two Portuguese from New Bedford and two Wasps one from Nantucket one from Hingham...
...Chappaquiddick recently went for a price of $125,000. Some projects on the Vineyard, where building permits are filed at the rate of one a day, would carve old farms into quarter-acre lots; others include the island's first beachfront condominiums and its first trailer camp. On Nantucket, now dotted with about 3,000 gray-shingle houses, 1,884 house lots were being planned for development this spring. Besides creating an almost suburban clutter, the projects endanger the limited local water supplies. Nantucket's Hummock Pond already is rank from sewage overflow. In the Vineyard, declares Planner...