Edgartown police are investigating a string of home break-ins in the downtown area over the past week.

Det. Craig Edwards said there were four break-ins on School street and South Summer street, two at the same house. The first was on June 12, when a piece of jewelry and several bottles of prescription medication had been stolen from a home on School street. The homeowners were out and the door was unlocked, police said.

Tisbury residents, having come up with the money to build a new fire house, now will be asked by town leaders to come up with more money, to knock down and redevelop the old one.

The town’s selectmen and planning board members, at a meeting on Tuesday night, all agreed the current building was not salvageable and should be removed as soon as possible after the new emergency services facility on Spring street is completed, around April or May next year.

The Garde family of Vineyard Haven appears to have given up on legal efforts to keep its three delinquent husky dogs, but has yet to comply with the town’s order to get rid of the dogs, or pay fines which now total more than $26,000.

The long-running dispute between the town and the family was due to have been aired again in Edgartown district court last week, but the family at the last minute dropped its action against an order of the selectmen.

Meredith Graduates

Meredith Goldthwait, of Vineyard Haven, has graduated magna cum laude with a liberal arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

The Lynn man who died while swimming in Katama Bay Saturday morning was a native of Dublin and well-known figure on the Vineyard, where he had played Irish music at the Bloomsday event in Vineyard Haven last week.

Massachusetts state police confirmed Sunday that David O’Docherty, 75, was pronounced dead just before noon on Saturday after he had gone swimming in Katama Bay and had not returned.