Noah Asimow
A Dorchester man is being held in Falmouth on $25,000 cash bail after allegedly sexually assaulting a teenaged traveler on a Steamship Authority vessel as it made passage from Martha’s Vineyard to Woods Hole Monday afternoon.
The boat line continued an inch-by-inch process of manually piecing operations back together following the attack last week that shut down its website.
Shuttered for nearly 15 months, Island town halls are once again swinging their doors open to the public and mulling a return to in-person public meetings.
Public funding for a project to repaint and restore the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown is on hold after the discovery that a work estimate from the Vineyard Trust had been altered.
Island health officials are ramping up their vaccination efforts, with the Covid-19 mobile vaccine bus making a return to the Island this weekend and separate pop-up clinics scheduled at two more rural locations on the Island.
The Steamship Authority was hit with a debilitating ransomware attack early Wednesday that reverberated across operations, crashing the website, halting vehicle reservations and crippling internal communication systems.