The body of an Edgartown man who reportedly drove off a cliff along East Chop in Oak Bluffs Thursday evening was recovered Saturday morning after being spotted by a woman aboard a Steamship Authority ferry in Vineyard Haven harbor.
Oak Bluffs police started their search for Benjamin Viera, 35, late Thursday evening after receiving a report from his family that they had received a disturbing message from him and were concerned about his safety.
A former chief of staff for a U.S. senator who crashed a Chilmark fundraiser for then-Presidential candidate John Edwards in August pleaded guilty last Wednesday to two charges of trespass and a misdemeanor charge of breaking and entering and was sentenced to two years probation in Edgartown district court.
The applicant for a controversial proposal to expand the baseball facility at Veira Park has officially shifted its focus to a new site, adjacent to the Oak Bluffs wastewater plant, which might be expanded into a town-wide recreational facility with a playground and basketball courts as well as a pair of baseball diamonds.
A Vineyard Haven woman was arrested and charged with felony attempted murder Saturday night after she allegedly attacked and violently choked the girlfriend of her infant’s father in a fit of jealousy.
Silvana Dias deCampos, 31, was arrested by Tisbury police after she reportedly went to the home of a 20-year-old woman on Lagoon Pond Road and attacked her.
Ms. deCampos initially was held on a $7,500 cash bail and was arraigned in Edgartown district court on Monday.
The blood alcohol level of 20-year-old Island woman Brandy Gibson was over twice the legal limit when she was killed in a motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Edgartown-Vineyard Haven and County Roads on Jan. 29, according to a toxicology report released this week by the Oak Bluffs police.
The state-backed home insurance provider of last resort for most Vineyarders is called the FAIR plan, but most Island residents readily complain that their ever-increasing premiums and deductibles are anything but fair.
In fact, at a special public forum at the Tisbury Senior Center on Monday, many Vineyarders were crying foul about their FAIR plan rates.