The Martha’s Vineyard Drug Task Force arrested an Island man on Monday as he was driving off the ferry in Vineyard Haven with 50 grams of uncut heroin hidden in the brake light of his pickup truck.
Police said the heroin has an estimated street value of $10,000.
Fiscal reform is the central theme as four candidates vie for one selectman’s seat in Oak Bluffs this year.
The candidates are Karen Achille, Gail Barmakian, Kris Chvatal and Kenneth Davey.
The annual town election is next Thursday; polling will take place at the Oak Bluffs library from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The open selectman’s seat is being vacated by Kerry Scott, who decided not to run again this year after two terms.
Like most other young men and women in the days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which immediately drew the United States into World War II, Islander Tom Hale wanted very badly to enlist in the armed forces and fight for his country.
Mr. Hale had just graduated from Milton Academy and tried to join the Navy, but was turned down for physical reasons. Then he tried the Air Force, but also was turned down. Finally he tried the Army Officer Training Corps, but still had no luck. Things got so bad, even the draft turned him down.
Spring sports are in full swing at the regional high school, kicking off what promises to be a lively season of interscholastic athletics.
West Tisbury voters will face a 48-article warrant at the annual town meeting Tuesday that includes a controversial request to fund an engineering study for dredging the Mill Pond, $150,000 in Community Preservation Act spending to restore the First Congregational Church and a $13.2 million budget for the coming year.
Oak Bluffs voters will face a new round of tough financial decisions at the annual town meeting Tuesday, beginning with a $24.7 million operating budget that the town may or may not be able to afford, and ending with a dozen override questions totaling $647,000 that put voters between a rock and a hard place: pay more taxes or do without.
