Love Story: Couple Makes Sweet Music for Valentine's

By C.K. WOLFSON

Jacob Weissman, 89, gingerly joins his wife, Nikki Langer Weissman, 80, next to the large Steinway and softly asks, "Do you think I can still do it?"

She shifts to make room beside her on the bench - "Of course you can."

Sixteen-year-old Hans Buder isn't the Island's most enthusiastic baseball player, but he certainly is an authority on the physics of the sport. Mr. Buder won last weekend's regional high school science fair by putting a lot of balls on a single bat.

County Assistant Claims Harassment

By JONATHAN BURKE

A legal complaint filed on Monday in Dukes County Superior Court alleges that Carol Borer, former county manager, threatened to kill Marsha Smolev, executive assistant, after Ms. Smolev inadvertently knocked her foot against Ms. Borer's desk.

Ms. Smolev is seeking damages for emotional distress, defamation, assault and battery and civil rights violations from Mrs. Borer and her husband, Steven. She alleges that Mrs. Borer displayed a pattern of harassment against her.

A&P Sells Both Vineyard Supermarkets in Nine-Store Deal with Stop & Shop

By MANDY LOCKE

After more than eight decades of selling groceries to Vineyarders, the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) will abandon its Island foothold - selling both the Edgartown and Vineyard Haven stores to the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company.

The transaction - together with the sale of four others in the state - is part of a larger move by the A&P to withdraw from all operations in Massachusetts.

The latest survey of moped, bicycle and motorcycle accidents on the Island won't show the broken ribs, the punctured lungs or the "whole body rubbed raw" by a case of road rash, said Dr. Alan Hirshberg, the director of emergency services at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital.

The future of the First Baptist Church of Vineyard Haven is caught in the middle between two opposing forces. Half the congregation wants to sell the building and build a new church somewhere else. Half wants to pursue a daunting task: Restoration of the 1885 building.