Checking Out: Volunteers Help Library's Move

By ALEXIS TONTI

Libraries are by their nature organized spaces. Every book has its place: adult and children's, reference, fiction and nonfiction. They are neatly shelved, alphabetized by author or sorted by the Dewey decimal system.

Here's the trade. A moped dealer who controls two rental outlets in Oak Bluffs is offering to shut down one moped shop. In exchange, he wants town officials to hand him a liquor license and a sewer permit for a new restaurant near the harbor.

Barbara Flynn Leaves; Office Closes

Caseworker Retires; State May Close Welfare Office

By MANDY LOCKE

Barbara Flynn leans closer - peering over her calico-framed glasses - and gives cat, Two-Face, another stroke before whispering, "I don't know what they're going to do."

Only the large desk cluttered with stacks of papers, a computer and a ringing telephone reminds the listener that this slight lady is anything other than a lifelong friend, that this office is anything other than a comfy living room.

Barbara Flynn Leaves; Office Closes

Caseworker Retires; State May Close Welfare Office

By MANDY LOCKE

Barbara Flynn leans closer - peering over her calico-framed glasses - and gives cat, Two-Face, another stroke before whispering, \"I don\'t know what they\'re going to do.\"

Only the large desk cluttered with stacks of papers, a computer and a ringing telephone reminds the listener that this slight lady is anything other than a lifelong friend, that this office is anything other than a comfy living room.

Two Island youths were arraigned in Edgartown District Court on Monday and charged in connection with a mid-afternoon break-in last Friday at a Chilmark home. Jonathan Wild of Vineyard Haven, 17, and Owen White of West Tisbury, 19, both of them seniors at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, were apprehended by Chilmark police with the help of citizens, the state police and officers from Aquinnah and West Tisbury.

It all started, police said, when 19-year-old Jonah Talbot rolled his car through the four-way stop near the fire station in Oak Bluffs. It ended up, after a six-minute police chase, at Five Corners in Vineyard Haven.