The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team is having a good week.
In addition to rolling over Littleton/Broomfield at home on Friday by a final of 29-14 to remain undefeated on the season, a news crew from NBC Sports is traveling with the team this week and taping a segment that will be aired later this year during a halftime segment of the network’s NFL Sunday Night Football program.
A Vineyard Haven man is scheduled to face trial in Dukes County Superior Court later this month for allegedly raping a New Hampshire woman in the summer of 2004. Richard J. Skrypczyk, 60 was indicted by a grand jury last April on a charge of rape following an incident that occurred after a wedding three years ago.
Mr. Skrypczyk’s trial is set to begin Oct. 15.
After less than 30 minutes of deliberation, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission last night unanimously and decisively agreed to add five Edgartown pathways dating back to colonial times into a special protection zone that will prevent them from being clear cut or widened in the future.
Mainland police this week said a Fairhaven man who disappeared from a Vineyard-bound voyage of the New England Fast Ferry late last month left a note for his family; as a result police now believe the man did not fall off the boat by accident.
On Sept. 24 Walter P. Tyler, 28, of Fairhaven, reportedly boarded the 1 p.m. high-speed passenger ferry from New Bedford to the Vineyard but never arrived on the Island. A team of investigators last week searched the waters between Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound but found nothing.
The former West Tisbury library director who abruptly resigned in April after less than a year on the job has been charged with two counts of sexually abusing a child while he worked as the director of the Haverhill public library more than 20 years ago.
Howard Curtis, 57, who worked as the library director in West Tisbury from June 2006 to March of 2007, was indicted by a grand jury in Salem superior court in June and pleaded not guilty to two charges of sexually assaulting a child.
Investigators are continuing their search for a Fairhaven man who may have fallen overboard during a Vineyard-bound trip of the New England Fast Ferry on Monday.
A team of investigators that includes Island and mainland police, the U.S. Coast Guard and the New Bedford Port Security Authority searched this week for 28-year-old Walter P. Tyler who boarded the 1 p.m. high-speed passenger ferry from New Bedford to the Vineyard but reportedly never arrived.