The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School boys’ basketball team defeated a determined team from Rockland at home last night by a final score of 70-62 in the first round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament.

The game was played before a standing-room-only crowd in the high school gymnasium — it may be school vacation week on the Vineyard but plenty of people are still at home.

On March 25, 1990, the call came over the marine radio channel 16. “This is the fishing vessel Sol e Mar,” said a frantic male voice. “We’re sinking. We need help now!” Then the line was cut and there was only static.

Coast Guard radio monitors on the Vineyard and Nantucket tried to raise the caller without success. A short time later another distress call came in, and this time caller was laughing.

Thinking now that the call was a hoax, the Coast Guard ended the matter.

The hand-painted wooden signs which feature a small bunch of grapes at the top are a signature feature on the Vineyard, replicated in postcards, on T-shirts and refrigerator magnets. Usually they hang from ornate metal posts. MassHighway installed most of these signs over 25 years ago, although many of them have been repaired or replaced over time by the towns.