Blinker Light: a Time to Stop

High Accident, Injury Rate Cited as Oak Bluffs Selectmen Vote; Stop Signs Up in Two Weeks; Rondabout by 2005?

By CHRIS BURRELL

Hit your brakes. A big red stop sign is about to replace the blinking yellow light at one of the Vineyard's most dangerous crossroads.

Chicken Massacre: Did Dog Do It? Court Will Hear DNA Evidence

By CHRIS BURRELL

The DNA results are in, the trial is Wednesday, and if you ask Joan Jenkinson, she'll tell you she has the mass murderer dead to rights.

But this is no ordinary murder case. The 11 victims are all chickens. The defendant is a four-year-old dog from West Tisbury named Serena and Ms. Jenkinson is the town's animal control officer-turned-forensics expert.

Life Amid the Grinder Pumps: Residents Adjust to New Oak Bluffs Sewer System

By CHRIS BURRELL

A few months ago, Fran Halamandaris might have shuddered at the thought of a family reunion descending on their old house in the center of Oak Bluffs.

Those were the pre-sewer days when folks in town lived in fear of flushing, worried about failed septic tanks and tidal cesspools and the sky-high cost of pumping out.

Moped Rider Hit and Injured at Blinker; Selectmen Will Consider Four-Way Stop

By CHRIS BURRELL

One day after a moped rider was hit by a car at the blinker light - the fifth accident at the crossroads so far this year - leaders in Oak Bluffs are poised to take drastic action to make one of the Island's most dangerous intersections safer.

One immediate option already on the table is a four-way stop.

Ask someone to recite the symptoms of Lyme disease, and you'll probably hear all the classic signs: bull's eye rash, fever and aching joints.

But what about depression, memory loss and other cognitive disorders?

Surprisingly, Lyme disease - in its chronic form - can also be the culprit for a host of psychiatric problems in anywhere from 15 to 40 per cent of cases.

CDs, Concerts Are in the Mix Aboveground

By CHRIS BURRELL

When Mike Mackey informed his boss Wednesday that he was going to a Foo Fighters concert and would be late to work the next day, he probably knew he wasn't going out on a limb.

At most any other workplace, such a declaration might brand the employee a slacker, but at Aboveground Records in Edgartown, store owner Michael Barnes lives - and works - by a whole different set of standards.

"That's okay," he told his 19-year-old staffer. "We support the rock."