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Vineyard Schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss hopes to move his office from its current location in Vineyard Haven to the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School by the year 2014.
Oak Bluffs police believe they have cleared up hundreds of peeping Tom incidents in the town stretching back over six or eight years, as well as two breaking and entering cases involving assaults on women, with the arrest of a man last Friday.
Irton A. DeSouza, 35, of Oak Bluffs, was arrested around 1:30 a.m. after being tracked down with the help of video footage recorded on a surveillance system set up by an Oak Bluffs homeowner, which captured him looking into windows.
Autumn is in the air and there is no better evidence than the sight of pickup trucks loaded with fishing rods and gear. The 65th Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby opened on Sunday; so far there are 1,400 fishermen registered.
The biggest striped bass weighed in at the Edgartown headquarters is a 32-pounder brought in Wednesday morning by Evan D. Metropoulous, a boat angler with a reputation for loving to be on the water and a persistence in catching big fish.
The Island Affordable Housing Fund has decided after more than three years to cut its losses on the proposed Bradley Square redevelopment in Oak Bluffs and sell the property.
The fund’s executive director, T. Ewell Hopkins, confirmed the sale plan this week, saying the organization could no longer “responsibly” carry the mortgage, given the remote prospects of raising sufficient money to begin work on the project. A price has not yet been set.
There’s nothing like a summer evening of baseball. The thwack of the bat hitting the ball, the smell of freshly cut grass wafting over the stands — this is the stuff of American tradition.
Now summer league baseball, long a presence on Cape Cod, may finally come to the Vineyard.
On Monday night, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee voted to grant a one-year license to the Carminucci Sports Group to begin a wooden-bat collegiate franchise team based at the high school’s new ball field.
Vineyard voters bucked the trend in the hottest contest of the Massachusetts primary on Tuesday, voting overwhelmingly for Robert O’Leary to be the Democratic candidate for Congress.
Mr. O’Leary, the current Cape and Islands state senator, got more than 80 per cent of Democratic votes on the Island — 1,478 of the 1,840 votes cast for 10th district candidate — but that vote was swamped by strong mainland support for his opponent, Norfolk district attorney William R. Keating. District-wide, Mr. Keating scored 51 per cent of the vote.