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The Vineyard sent three youth soccer teams to the Massachusetts Tournament of Champions in Lancaster this past weekend and had one team — the boys’ 11-and-under squad — qualify for the championship game by winning three grueling preliminary games against some of the toughest teams in the state.
She’s top of the Pops: Katie Mayhew last night won the Boston Pops High School Sing-Off at Symphony Hall.
The 16-year-old Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School student earned the chance to perform with the orchestra at Friday’s Fourth of July Pops concert on the Esplanade.
Katie sang Being Alive, from the musical Company, throughout the competition, which began in May and prompted hundreds of entries.
A taxi owned by Adam Cab crashed into a utility pole on Lagoon Pond Road across from the Tisbury post office early Thursday morning, snarling traffic at the Five Corners intersection for several hours on one of the busiest days of the year. The accident occurred around 7 a.m., just as the early morning boats were arriving to deliver throngs of visitors and seasonal residents for the busy Fourth of July holiday weekend.
The Aquinnah selectmen will meet this morning to decide whether to call a special town meeting this summer to bring back the failed energy bylaw fo
Hello, Stella
Gina Heysek and Peter Breese of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a daughter, Stella Vita Heysek-Breese, on June 24 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Stella weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces at birth.
Although it took 40 minutes to reach a quorum of Oak Bluffs voters at a special town meeting on Tuesday called to approve more than $200,000 in year-end transfers, the discussion and subsequent vote flew by in flash with no debate, discussion or questions.
By all accounts, the town meeting was the fastest in town history when measured from actual start to finish. However, the scheduled start time of 7 p.m. was delayed when only about 20 voters gathered at the Oak Bluffs School, well short of the required 50 residents needed for a quorum.