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Gecimar Silva, a longtime painter from Tisbury, claimed his prize at the Massachusetts Lottery headquarters in Dorchester Friday, opting to take the one-time lump sum payment of $650,000.

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News, Nature & Science

Scup Fishery Proposal Stirs Sharp Criticism; Unfair to Youngsters

Mark Alan Lovewell

There is a proposal before federal and state fisheries managers that will make it a crime to possess scup next summer. If the regulation is adopted...

7:00 pm, January 11, 2001
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Community

Community Services Expansion Wins School Committee Backing

Chris Burrell

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...

7:00 pm, January 11, 2001
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News, Real Estate

Herring Creek Trust Files New Lawsuit

Julia Wells

The Herring Creek Farm Trust has filed a new lawsuit against the Martha's Vineyard Commission, appealing a recent decision by the commission to...

7:00 pm, January 11, 2001
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Foreign Workers Change Face of Island Business

Katherine Wiley

"Today and tomorrow were supposed to be my days off. I got here at 5:30 this morning. My last days off were last year," Mr. Silva said, smiling even...