Four Island teens dodged a bullet last weekend, surviving a high-speed automobile accident in Edgartown. One youth faces charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol; one was airlifted to Boston, but all are recovering. The accident occurred at 1 a.m. on Saturday.

In the view of Aquinnah police chief Doug Fortes, the turning point came in the fall of 1999, when rangers from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) came back from a trip to the Oneida Indian Nation in upstate New York, packing a half dozen Glock nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistols.

Attorneys on both sides of a bitter, four-year dispute which centers on painful charges of racism against the town of Tisbury and its police depart

Although it is still without furniture and there are files on the floors, the new $1.4 million Tisbury Police and Ambulance Facility was open for b

The Tisbury police and ambulance facility is nearing completion. According to police chief John J.