Saturday brought a mixed bag of results for Vineyard sports teams with the basketball squads splitting their matches against Bishop Feehan. The girls’ squad suffered a narrow 78-70 loss while the boys' team came away with a 54-46 win.

After a pause in high school sports this week due to exams, all the varsity teams return to competition for a busy day Saturday.

At exactly 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning, a beam of sunshine peeked out from behind a cloud to envelop a treeless hill in Aquinnah in golden light. A small crowd, bundled up against the 15-degree chill, had gathered at the town landfill, but at the morning’s ribbon-cutting ceremony for Aquinnah’s first-ever solar array project, the sun was the guest of honor.

“This is really a great occasion for all of us to be here today,” Aquinnah town administrator Adam Wilson told the onlookers, shortly before selectman Jim Newman snipped the official red ribbon.

On a recent Monday afternoon the Makos youth swim team is practicing its freestyle strokes, swimming up and down the lanes of the YMCA, as co-coach Rainy Goodale, 42, demonstrates proper technique by making slicing motions though the air. A group of swim-capped youngsters watches, trying to learn by osmosis.

This weekend Mrs. Goodale will travel with the team to Eastham for the annual Southeastern Massachusetts Swim League distance meet. But the sport has taken her far outside the state lines of Massachusetts

Firefighters responded to a chimney fire at 4 Central avenue in downtown Oak Bluffs on Tuesday afternoon. Assistant Chief John Rose said the fire broke out through a crack in the chimney on the second floor of the home, but the owner of the property was able to extinguish the flames. Firefighters worked for two and a half hours to make sure that the fire did not spread.

The Vineyard girls' hockey team won the consolation game but failed to nab a top spot at the Nan Rheault Tournament, held this weekend at the Martha’s Vineyard Arena. Meanwhile, the boys’ squad had a more sucsesful day Saturday, shutting down visiting Somerset for a 4-0 win.