Announcing Isabella

Kara Zajicek and Shawn Webster of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Isabella Rose Webster, born on Dec. 17 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Isabella weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces at birth.

In a story last week on Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, incoming tribal chairman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), the first name of Dan Maltais, Ms. Andrews-Maltais’s husband, was written incorrectly. The Gazette regrets the error.

The Martha's Vineyard Commission on Monday voted without dissent to designate an energy district critical of planning concern in the town of Aquinnah, the first such district of its kind on the Island.

The town and the commission will now begin the process of drafting special townwide regulations for Aquinnah to promote alternative energy in new construction and establish guidelines for the placement of wind turbines, solar panels and geothermal systems.

An Island gas company drew some darts this week for asking a number of its customers who have had credit problems to pay a deposit this winter or face being shut off from future deliveries of gas and propane.

A letter sent by Vineyard Propane & Oil in recent weeks to certain customers states that the company had performed a credit check which revealed their credit history was insufficient for billing, and that the customer would need to pay a deposit of $300 to insure future deliveries.

BOSTON — A daylong hearing on casino gambling at the Massachusetts State House this week drew a huge crowd of red-shirted union workers and some of the world’s wealthiest casino executives who flew in for the occasion.

But missing from the scene were the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and its sister tribe in Mashpee.