In a classic example of saving the best for last, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School freshmen Tony Canha and Jason Gruner were declared the winners of the school’s 14th annual Linguini Bridge Contest on Monday after 1,500 pounds of crushing metal proved no match for the duo’s lightweight entry into the competition. Their bridge was the final weigh-in of the yearly event, which pits the unassuming combination of Prince linguini, Elmer’s glue and solid engineering strategy against the dual powers of pressure and gravity.

M elissa Breese has long known how to match a piece of art with a collector; she sold her first painting at age 15, working at her parents’ gallery, which they ran for 30 years. “I received quite an education from just learning about what I was always surrounded by,” she recalled, dressed every bit the New Yorker in black leggings, black boots and a grey sweater.

Two Vineyard residents were treated for minor injuries after their plane crash-landed between the bridges on Joseph Sylvia State Beach on Saturday night.

Jean Dupon, 67, and Susan King, 45, both of Edgartown, were treated and released from Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, state police trooper David Parent confirmed.

The single-engine Piper aircraft was pointed out to sea, propeller blades slightly bent, no undercarriage evident, with obvious damage under the fuselage but otherwise remarkably intact on state beach on Sunday.