Reversing a downsizing of seven years ago, the U.S. Coast Guard soon will expand its Vineyard presence, including resumption of full use of the Menemsha Coast Guard station.

As part of that process, Chilmark selectmen have been told the town police department, now a tenant at the old historic station, located on the hill overlooking the Home Port restaurant and Menemsha Pond, must find a new home by May 1.

Tiring of Those Who Short Cut, Neighborhood Considers Gate

By MANDY LOCKE

In about eight minutes, a driver taking a shortcut from the West Tisbury Road to the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road can get from the entrance at Metcalf Drive to the exit at Dodgers Hole. It takes only six minutes if he ignores the 15 mile per hour speed limits painted on the asphalt between speed bumps on the narrow residential streets of the cut-through.

One More Time, Fellows: The Vineyarders Play in Championship Match Tomorrow

By ALEXIS TONTI

For the fourth time in five years, Vineyard football is set to play for the state title. After defeating East Boston 17-12 in this week's playoff contest, the Vineyarders now will face Manchester Essex in Saturday's Division VI Super Bowl.

They are on camera more than any soap opera actor, and their fan base extends all the way to Europe. But they coudn’t be more clueless about their fame. That’s because they are chickens, and their every daylight move is being broadcast over the worldwide web from a backyard camera in West Tisbury.

Sweet Revenge: Vineyarders Recapture Cup

By ALEXIS TONTI

After winning the 26th annual Island Cup and clinching the Mayflower Large League title last Saturday, the Vineyarders now advance to the playoffs, where they will compete for a spot in the Division VI superbowl.

The playoff game is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 4 p.m. at White Stadium in Franklin Park, south of Boston. The Vineyarders will face East Boston, which defeated South Boston 36-16 in a game played yesterday.

Voters in Aquinnah are set to gather next week for a relatively routine special town meeting, but as a swirl of discussion heats up in this tiny town over the Wampanoag tribe's court case on sovereign immunity, the meeting may prove to be not-so-routine.

Five months ago a superior court judge ruled that the tribe could not be sued because of sovereign immunity.