As soon as he saw Kaleena Searle swing up her right arm, the 16-year-old boy from Tisbury knew something bad was coming his way.

"I knew I was going to get stabbed," the teenager told police last year.

It happened on a late night in mid-June. The boy had just walked out of Cumberland Farms carrying a quart of milk, a chicken sandwich and a Kudos bar.

When eight-year-old Asa P. Bernard came home from school a week ago Tuesday, his parents had bad news for him. All of the family's fishing gear was stolen. Someone, the night before, had taken all the rods and reels and fishing tackle from the pickup truck parked next to their home.

"I felt like I was a volcano that had just exploded. I was very super angry, super mad and medium sad," Asa recalled this week.

Boatline Governor Proposes a Return to Summer Standby

By JULIA WELLS

NEW BEDFORD - A $68 million operating budget, a $2.4 million capital budget, a $3.3 million rate increase for the people of the Vineyard and Nantucket and the prospect of a new head tax - the talk was all about money yesterday at the monthly meeting of the Steamship Authority governors.

Vineyard boat line governor Kathryn A. Roessel also called for bringing back summer standby lines for cars.

Cause of Power Outage Unknown, but Clearly It Ended Just in Time

By MANDY LOCKE and ALEXIS TONTI

For 75 minutes at dusk yesterday, the lights went out from Aquinnah to Vineyard Haven as a power outage affected most of the Island.

But the only sounds of panic came from Red Sox fans chomping at the bit for electricity to be restored before the gripping American League Championship Series tie-breaker. Those who couldn't risk the gamble fled to Oak Bluffs, the only town that maintained power throughout the outage.

Survey of Businesses Seeks Facts, Opinions on Island Economics

By MANDY LOCKE

Two Vineyard agencies are joining forces in an effort to capture the dynamics of the Island's business community through an extensive survey of more than 1,000 business leaders.

A new round of private well tests in an Edgartown neighborhood this week intensified the mystery for Island officials working to pinpoint the sourc