Plans for a three-story, 26-room hotel on the old Ocean View restaurant site in Oak Bluffs have spurred a unified resistance campaign among East Chop residents.

Protestors gathered at Martha's Vineyard Airport and in Aquinnah as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited the Island Tuesday for a meeting with a federal tribal advisory committee.

A Dukes County grand jury returned indictments for Aimee Cotton, 40, on charges of manslaughter and reckless endangerment of a child in connection with the death of Frank Rodenbaugh, a two-year-old who Ms. Cotton was babysitting. 

The Coast Guard is looking to remove 162 buoys in the northeast, and potentially combine several others.

A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School announced last week that they have teamed up with a pharmaceutical company to shepherd a Lyme antibody to phase two and three trials, the next step before getting approval with the federal government.