The scenario has played out on the Vineyard for decades.
Someone spends a lot of money to buy an expensive waterfront home and expects to be able to build a dock to go with it. The dock is denied by a local conservation commission. The decision is appealed, denied again, appealed again. The cycle continues, this time in court.
For over a decade, Antone (Tony) Bettencourt, the new police chief of Edgartown, served as the department’s special event coordinator, which meant organizing police response to large community events during the summer, including visits by President Clinton, the annual fireworks display and the Fourth of July parade.
The game was in hand for coach J. Ernie Chaves’s Tigers team on Saturday during the Martha’s Vineyard Little League championship game at Veira Park in Oak Bluffs, when one of his players hit a line drive foul ball that sent him scurrying for cover as he stood on the third base line.
On the same weekend the U.S. national team was eliminated from the World Cup by losing to Ghana, a Vineyard soccer team was playing in a big tournament of their own, and very much like the U.S., facing the same team that knocked them out of contention in the last go-around.
The Vineyard Under-13 team (U-13s) traveled to Lancaster to play Ludlow Friday morning in the Massachusetts Tournament of Champions (MTOC).
After 17 years serving in the U.S. Air Force, Special Agent Jason F. Canha has learned to take the good and the bad of military life. He has traveled around the globe, met lifelong friends and served in one of the most elite military police units in the world.
But Agent Canha, 37, who was born and raised in Oak Bluffs, has also had to endure long stretches away from his wife and two children, spent holidays with soldiers instead of family and passed along birthday wishes over the phone instead of in person.
A Dukes County grand jury indicted Peter J. Duart, 42, of Daggett avenue on a single count of rape (subsequent offense) stemming from allegations that he sexually abused a person who is mentally challenged.
Mr. Duart has been held in the Edgartown house of correction since his arrest in March on charges of rape and indecent assault and battery on a retarded person, a term used in the state statute.
