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Four longtime teachers at the regional high school have announced their retirements.
Paul Brissette, chairman of the art, design and technology department; Keith Dodge of the English department; Leo Frame, chairman of the business department; and Janice Frame of the art department, will all retire at the end of the 21012-2013 school year.
A Vineyard Haven man will go to state prison for 10 to 13 years after he pleaded guilty Wednesday in Dukes County superior court to several charges, including rape of a child by force.
David L. Thrift Jr., 31, will serve his time at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction, a maximum security prison in Walpole.
According to the superior court, Mr. Thrift also pleaded guilty to rape of a child under 16 with a minimum of 10 years age difference and was ordered to serve 10 to 13 years, concurrent with first count.
The criminal case against a prominent Island businessman facing indecent assault charges will go to trial after a disagreement over terms of a plea bargain Friday morning.
Steven A. Schwab, 65, a former Chilmark resident, originally pleaded guilty in Edgartown district court Friday to charges in Chilmark and Tisbury of two counts of open and gross lewdness, assault and battery, and indecent assault and battery on someone younger than 14.
A Dukes County grand jury indicted two people on Monday, one on drug trafficking charges and another for statutory rape.
Mitefea Kelly, 18, was indicted on one count of trafficking cocaine in the amount of 200 grams or more.
Ms. Kelly, a New York resident, was arrested in August for allegedly coming to the Island with more than 270 grams of cocaine, part of what members of the Martha’s Vineyard Drug Task Force said was an operation to bring large amounts of cocaine to the Vineyard. Bail was set in her case at $200,000
The Vineyard Gazette’s total print circulation remained flat this year, as traffic to its website continued double digit growth.
Total average circulation for the Gazette over the past 12 months was 8,903, compared with 8,823 for the same period last year. Paid circulation was 8,472 compared with 8,569 in 2011, a 1.1 per cent decline.
In high school sports action boys’ soccer takes on Dennis-Yarmouth today at 3 p.m.
Vineyarders resume after the long weekend with a Monday golf match against Whitman-Hanson at 3 p.m. Girls’ soccer and field hockey play Coyle-Cassidy and Barnstable, respectively, on Tuesday at 3 p.m., and the cross country team hosts Coyle at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Field hockey takes on West Bridgewater on Thursday, while girls’ soccer plays Bishop Stang and the co-ed golf team takes on Falmouth.