In many ways, this year's Martha's Vineyard Regional High School boys' soccer team is a study in contradictions.
While most of the players have been kicking the ball together since they were children, coming up together through the ranks of youth soccer and the recreation and travel leagues, other key players joined the team only recently, after moving to the Island from other countries like Brazil.
Two Edgartown homeowners who tore down a historic backyard barn on their property at the corner of Cooke and Summer streets in March of 2005 without town approval have agreed to pay the town $10,000.
There was nothing out of the ordinary about the evening of April 25, when Renato Da Rocha, a 48-year-old Island carpenter and native of Brazil, disappeared into thin air.
A late afternoon rain shower had come and gone, leaving the Island cloaked in a misty fog. Mr. Da Rocha had spent the day doing exterior work on a home on Chappaquiddick, and he caught a ride back to his home on Curtis Lane in Edgartown from a co-worker.
The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School was partially locked down Wednesday while a team of Edgartown and Oak Bluffs police searched for a student who authorities feared might have brought a gun to school.
Edgartown police arrested a 16-year-old sophomore in connection with a home burglary the previous day where a handgun was stolen. He was charged with larceny of a firearm, breaking and entering during the daytime and larceny from a house.
Citing the need to protect Sengekontacket Pond and better understand the effects of build-out on water quality, the Edgartown board of health voted last month to impose a moratorium on septic system and well permits in the Ocean Heights and Arbutus Park section of town.
The moratorium, which amounts to a ban on new construction, is in effect for 60 days and expires Nov. 19. It may be extended by the board.
The Oak Bluffs selectmen Tuesday ended years of debate on the proposed roundabout at the blinker intersection, agreeing to build the controversial single-lane traffic rotary to help relieve traffic during busy summer months.