News
On a recent Friday morning, a group of Edgartown School students could be found in the back of the building, grossly immersed in studies. They had no books, no pencils, no teachers telling them to quiet down, only their hands for tools. The six students, all under the age of nine, were wildly excited to be back to school to pick from the beds of vegetables they had started during the school year.
No charges will be filed against the driver of the tractor trailer that was involved in a fatal bicycle accident on July 6 in Vineyard Haven, a Cape and Islands district attorney confirmed yesterday.
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The Coast Guard began work in the Menemsha harbor Wednesday to remove several sunken boats, and the harbor has been reopened to recreational boating, as the town takes steps to restore function in and around the village after the fire that destroyed the historic Coast Guard boathouse early last week..
The charred remains of the boathouse and wooden pier leading out to the West Dock remain largely untouched, but town officials and employees, in conjunction with the Coast Guard, are working diligently behind the scenes to facilitate the reconstruction process.
Lifeguards made a series of rescues this week at Lucy Vincent Beach in Chilmark, where rip currents have created unsafe swimming conditions in spots, Chilmark beach superintendent Martina Mastromonaco said yesterday. On Monday, two women were rescued by lifeguards after currents pulled them out to sea.
Correction
The Vineyard Gazette Wedding Planner, published on May 14, contained incorrect attribution for a photographer in the pictures that accompanied a story about a couple who were married in Menemsha. Credit for the pictures should have gone to Our Labor of Love photography. The credit has been corrected in the version of the Wedding Planner that appears on the Gazette Web site. The Gazette regrets the error.