Acting as mediators in the second such neighborhood dispute in as many months, Edgartown selectmen approved taking legal action against a resident of Slough Cove Road who has failed to remove junk from his property.

Robert Sequeira is in violation of zoning laws, according to members of the Dunham’s Corner residents association who appeared at a selectmen’s meeting Monday.

Attorney Daniel Larkosh, who was representing the residents, argued that the junk on Mr. Sequeira’s property poses a potential threat to the groundwater.

The changing economy is wreaking minor havoc with school enrollment projections for the next five years.

Student enrollment on the Vineyard is now projected to remain roughly level through 2013, according to a recent report from the New England School Development Council (NESDEC).

The new report contradicts last year’s figures which pointed to a steady decade-long downward trend, and were used in mid-term budget planning by Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal Steven Nixon.

In August of 2008 a 20-year-old man drove into a tree in Chilmark and was deemed intoxicated by police. In February of 2008 in Oak Bluffs another man failed five sobriety field tests and the chemical test at Dukes County jail. In November of 2008 in Oak Bluffs still another man, arrested a second time for driving drunk, blew above the legal limit once on a portable Breathalyzer and twice more on the chemical test at the jail.

None were convicted of operating under the influence of alcohol (OUI).

Chilmark selectmen J.B. Riggs Parker and Frank Fenner had some choice words for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and their budget process at a meeting Tuesday.

Less than two years after her final Vineyard voyage, the once-beloved ferry Islander is floating unwanted off Governors Island, N.Y. waiting to be auctioned off on eBay like so much attic junk.

She is scheduled to appear on the shopping and auction Web site on the morning before Valentine’s Day. There is no reserve bid.