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The undefeated regional high school boys’ tennis team continued its champion season run on Saturday, advancing to the state semifinals for the first time in the program’s history by defeating Dover-Sherborn. The third-seeded girls’ team, which has also had an outstanding season, saw a different outcome on Friday after a marathon two-day match against second-seeded Cohasset ended with a loss. Cohasset will now advance to the state semi-finals.
Forget Shark Week – Shark Summer on the Vineyard is about to begin, not in the water but on the baseball field.
The Martha’s Vineyard Sharks, the Island’s own collegiate wooden bat summer baseball team, stage their second season home opener by taking on the Nashua Silver Knights at 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 9. In honor of opening day, the Sharks are opening the doors for all budding ball players by giving free admission to all Little and Junior League players. For the regular folk, tickets are $3 for children (under 13) and $5 for adults.
This Saturday is in many ways the start of summer, at least in West Tisbury, where the Farmers’ Market begins its season. The eating and shopping starts at 9 a.m. at the Grange Hall and keeps munching on until noon.
The market is open every Saturday during the summer and on July 4 begins its Wednesday run too; same time, same place.
An Edgartown woman was charged with drunken driving Friday after a single car crash left the car submerged in the water by the big bridge in Oak Bluffs.
Ashley Peters, 22, was charged with drunken driving, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, marked lanes violation and speeding in the crash at 12:50 a.m. Friday, state police Sgt. Thomas Medeiros said.
Ms. Peters, who was driving toward Edgartown on Beach Road, veered to the right just before the big bridge and into the water, Sgt. Medeiros said.
In the wake of the overwhelming votes this spring in five Island towns against the controversial roundabout project, a longtime member of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission has called for the regional planning agency to revisit its own position on the plan.
At the end of the MVC meeting Thursday night, Leonard Jason Jr. announced his intention to request a new vote on the controversial roundabout planned for the blinker intersection in Oak Bluffs.
The Holmes Hole Sailing Association, a group of skippers that has sponsored friendly competitions since 1970, has announced its 2012 summer schedule of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven Harbor.
The association will sponsor a series of 27 races, in a variety of formats, beginning with a tune-up race in Vineyard or Nantucket Sound on June 17 and concluding with the annual George Moffett Memorial Race on September 8.