In the latest move in what has become a prolonged legal chess game, Oak Bluffs selectmen on Tuesday unanimously agreed to refer the much-maligned three-story garage built by Joseph G. Moujabber on the North Bluff to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for review as a development of regional impact.
Oak Bluffs police on Wednesday arrested a man for operating under the influence and driving a stolen car after a brief high-speed chase on Wing Road.
Officer Jeff Trudel pulled over Clemens Fraize, 38, of Amesbury around 1 a.m. on Wing Road and approached his vehicle on foot. As he neared the driver side window, Mr. Fraize put the car in gear and sped off, heading south on Wing Road.
An Oak Bluffs contractor and former town official who assaulted the administrator to the Oak Bluffs conservation commission in March while she was performing a site walk, was placed on probation for three years in Edgartown district court on Friday.
A Florida man and former chief of staff for a U.S. senator who allegedly crashed a Chilmark fundraiser for Presidential candidate John Edwards last month and stole several campaign documents appeared in Edgartown district court on Friday for a brief pretrial conference.
Michael Duga, 31, is charged with breaking and entering during the daytime, a felony, two charges of trespassing, one charge of larceny from a building and one charge of possession of a class D drug (marijuana).
West Tisbury police are investigating a report that a woman hitchhiking on State Road late last month was sexually assaulted after a driver picked her up, drove her to an isolated stretch of dirt road and covered her head with a blanket while flashing a gun.
It wasn’t a score-fest like Sunday’s game between the New England Patriots and New York Jets, but the regional high school football team’s 7-0 win over Old Rochester in the home opener Friday was equally impressive.
The Vineyarders’ defense shut down the potent Bulldogs attack, while the offense did not turn the ball over all game.
