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Something wasn’t right: a man known to have violated his probation was boarding the ferry in Vineyard Haven and heading for Woods Hole, instead of being in custody.
Oak Bluffs police officer Jeff Trudel spotted Jason R. Willoughby, 26, of Edgartown, because they were on the same 8:15 a.m. ferry last Friday, Oct. 21. Officer Trudel and the black Labrador Buster — the two form Oak Bluffs’s new K-9 drug unit — were headed to the mainland for a training session, a police spokesman said.
A week before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission is set to possibly take a second vote on the controversial roundabout project in Oak Bluffs, MVC executive director Mark London sent an unusual e-mail to commissioners warning them not to talk about the issue with members of the public or read commentary in local newspapers.
A home off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road was completely destroyed by fire early Friday morning. No one was injured, Tisbury fire chief John Schilling said.
Once upon a time, a princess stood on the stoop of Martha and Gerry Yukevich’s William street house in Vineyard Haven. It was Halloween, and the princess was the first visitor of the night.
A broad-based effort to combat Lyme disease is now underway on the Vineyard, with the objective of better documenting and preventing the tick-borne illness that has affected untold numbers of year-round Islanders, summer residents and casual visitors.
The Oak Bluffs fireworks display, a cornerstone of Island summer every August, will be cancelled next year unless the town finds a way to continue the show after the town Firemen’s Civic Association voted to end their sponsorship of the event on Sunday.
A press statement released after the vote by civic association president James T. Morse and his fellow officers explained the decision while acknowledging the fireworks’ rich Island legacy.