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On one of the busiest weekends of the year, police said there were few incidents of note. “It’s the news I want to give to you,” said West Tisbury chief Matthew Mincone.
Island police were kept busy with an array of minor incidents over the weekend. On Sunday Edgartown police responded to a call at the Vineyard Vines store, where a stink bomb had been left inside.
Aquinnah selectmen met briefly in executive session with their police chief Randhi Belain Wednesday morning as a personnel matter.
Three people were injured, one critically on Thursday night when a Vineyard Transit Authority bus struck two pedestrians near the Church Street bus stop in Edgartown.
Tisbury police and the Martha’s Vineyard tactical response team were called to a Daggett avenue home in Vineyard Haven Wednesday morning.
An Oak Bluffs firefighter was listed in critical condition in a Boston hospital Thursday following a freak motorcycle accident over the weekend. Eric Voshell, 37, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital early Sunday morning.