Understanding the relationships between the ocean and air is essential if weather forecasting in the future is to be more precise.

Hillary Clinton's Book Signing Draws a Good-Humored Crowd

By ALEXIS TONTI

At 7:30 Saturday morning, the line of people waiting for tickets for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's book signing had become so unwieldy that the police department asked the Bunch of Grapes, which had been scheduled to open at nine, to let people in early.

Some Things Return and Others Change as Fair Gets Underway for 142nd Time

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

Rotting beams caused the collapse of a deck which injured several people at an evening party in Chilmark last Thursday night.

Police Audit Says Another $19,000 in Fees Was Lost from School's Accounts

By CHRIS BURRELL

Oak Bluffs police now believe that the regional high school culinary arts teacher charged with stealing $11,000 worth of school-owned equipment and food supplies may have also pocketed an additional $19,000 in payments that were supposed to go into a student activity account.

Police went to Edgartown District Court yesterday seeking two new charges against Peter J. Koines: one count of larceny over $250 and a second count of larceny by false pretenses.

A purchase announced by the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank Friday will conserve roughly 100 acres of dense woods and active farmland in West Tisbury. The land, sold by Katharine Sterling, is a significant anchor in the land bank's cross-West Tisbury trail, located directly between the Wompesket Preserve and Old Holmes Hole Road.