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The Highlands, as they are familiarly known, are located on East Chop, the general boundary being laid out like the Methodist Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs, with a central circle ringed by house lots along curving avenues.
A Boston man and an Oak Bluffs woman were arrested on drug charges over the long holiday weekend.
Corey A. Crump, 35, of Boston, was arraigned July 5 on charges of possessing to distribute class A drugs (heroin), possessing to distribute class B drugs (cocaine), and conspiracy to violate drug laws.
According to a police report filed in the court, confidential sources told police that Mr. Crump came to the Island from Boston to sell heroin, and that he had at least five customers on the Island.
Fugitive from Justice
A Maryland man wanted by police on several charges was arrested on the Vineyard on the Fourth of July as a fugitive from justice.
Charles Evans 3rd, 44, of Annapolis, Md., was arraigned in Edgartown district court and held without bail pending rendition to Maryland.
The fuel station at Church’s Pier in the Oak Bluffs harbor will remain closed following a gas leak on the Fourth of July.
Oak Bluffs fire chief Peter Forend said that because of old fuel lines, the station at the harbor — the only source of fuel at the busy marina — will be closed until repairs are made.
Amy Sabin Barrow and Scott Murray Barrow of West Tisbury announce the birth of a son, Henry Emmett Barrow, born on June 25, 2012 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Henry weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces at birth.
The time-honored Vineyard tradition of jumping off the Big Bridge into Sengekontacket Pond has now been joined by a yearly concern about the safety of jumpers — not for their daring leaps into the water below, but for the time they spend sitting and standing on the bridge as traffic whizzes by.
Low railings that divide pedestrians, including bridge jumpers, from Beach Road are the worry, and Oak Bluffs and Edgartown are taking steps to address the problem that they say ultimately should be dealt with by the state.