A 54-year-old New York woman died after an incident in rough seas off a remote beach in Chilmark on Tuesday afternoon, where she was swimming with two friends.

The accident took place off the south-facing ocean beach on the Chilmark Pond Preserve, a property owned by the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank.

Swimmers and sunbathers leaving State Beach Monday afternoon were surprised to find parking tickets stuck under the wiper blades of their windshields, but for more than a few the surprise turned to outrage when they learned who had issued the tickets.

The name of the officer listed on the $10 tickets was S. Berlucchi, who checked off the boxes next to Edgartown and Oak Bluffs to indicate what town had issued the citations.

Last Year's Winner Takes Lead in Bass Derby

By MAX HART

Like the great Yankee catcher Yogi Berra once said, it was deja vu all over again.

Victim in Theft, British Library Pushes for Tougher Sentence

By JAMES KINSELLA

The British Library, one of the institutions victimized by rare-map thief E. Forbes Smiley 3rd of Chilmark, has urged the court to increase the severity of his pending sentence.

The library, whose 1520 Apian world map was stolen by Mr. Smiley, has called on U.S. District Judge Janet Arterton to sentence him to 78 to 97 months in prison. The government and the defense have agreed that his sentence should range from 57 to 71 months.

Difficult Issues Confront MVC

Regional Land Use Commission Searches for Fresh Approach to Regulate Trophy Houses, Protect Neighborhoods

By IAN FEIN

Following back-to-back Martha's Vineyard Commission meetings that centered on the impacts that out-of-scale homes can pose on their neighbors and the rest of the Island, leaders in the regional planning agency are now confronting the question of what to do.

After six months of waiting, $900 in application fees, one lost job offer, thousands of dollars in lost salary and untold emotional strain, a Martha's Vineyard immigration story ended happily last week. If there is a moral to the tale, it is that the Department of Homeland Security is a bureaucracy as easy to navigate as Cape Horn in a squall, and despite its reputation, the Edgartown post office is not always to blame.