Island bars and restaurants were jumping this past Labor Day weekend, but police from Aquinnah to Oak Bluffs reported most people were on their best behavior and there were few notable incidents of depravity or disturbance.

Police officials said the number of calls for service was up, although most were for more mundane indiscretions such as traffic stops.

“There was a high number of people on the Island; but everyone seemed to be on their best behavior. It was pretty tame,” Oak Bluffs Sgt. Michael Marchand said.

Three separate police investigations have led to several major drug arrests, the Martha's Vineyard Drug Task Force announced this week.

An Oak Bluffs man was arrested Sunday at the Stop & Shop in Vineyard Haven, while two separate incidents on Tuesday and Wednesday led to the arrest of three others. All have been charged with various drug-related crimes.

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.

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Oak Bluffs police say former Tisbury selectman A. Kirk Briggs was driving drunk just before midnight Tuesday when his 1989 Chevy pickup truck hit a 25-year-old woman from Estonia who was walking her bicycle along New York avenue just west of Our Market.

Operators of rented mopeds suffered two serious accidents this week on the same stretch of Seaview avenue near Lola's Restaurant in Oak Bluffs. In both accidents, moped operators lost control, crossed the center line and crashed into oncoming auto traffic.