Oak Bluffs officials were surprised to learn this week that town administrator Michael Dutton approved a pay raise and job reclassification for building inspector Jerry Wiener in October without the approval or knowledge of the selectmen.

After posting a 17-3-2 record, the Martha's Vineyard high school boys' soccer celebrated its first conference title this past fall - a feat even more impressive considering it was the team's first year as a member of the South Coast Conference.

Nobody could have guessed at the time the title might have been the first and last for the Vineyard - both for the soccer team and the seven other teams from the high school allowed into the conference on an interim basis in 2005.

After a busy week on the floor, Cong. Willliam Delahunt could not refrain from putting his feet up on his desk to rest. "It's been frenetic," he said last Friday, taking a short break in his House office across the street from the Capitol.

Tribe Approves Land Use Pact

Memorandum of Understanding Between the Two Governments Now Needs Voter Approval at Special Town Meeting

By IAN FEIN

After five months of internal deliberations, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) this week approved a revised land use agreement with the town of Aquinnah.

Retired Edgartown School principal Edward J. Jerome will take over on Tuesday as interim principal of West Tisbury School, superintendent of schools Dr. James H. Weiss announced this week. West Tisbury School principal Michael Halt, a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserves, leaves this weekend for active duty in California and Iraq.

Youth Group at Federated Church Returns from Mission to Aid New Orleans Cleanup

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

A large area in and around New Orleans remains devastated after Hurricane Katrina brought high winds and a storm surge to the Gulf Coast in August 2005.