The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School boys’ hockey team fought to the bitter end against the Nauset Warriors in Orleans on Wednesday but gave up a goal in the final minutes to lose 2-1, in a battle of two teams battling for position in the division 2 south sectionals.
Left hungry on the street after his mother’s death, on the run from police and stoned on shoemaker’s glue, 13-year-old Emmanuel has meager expectations for life. He is simply looking for something to eat, a place to sleep and perhaps just a chance at a better life.
“I want to go school right now!” he defiantly shouts over and over to anyone who will listen.
Kathy and Paul Domitrovich, the owners of Lola’s Southern Seafood restaurant and nightclub in Oak Bluffs, will close their doors after 15 seasons of doing business on the Vineyard.
In a statement released Monday, the owners announced that they will sell the restaurant to Doug and Leslie Hewson, owners of the Mediterranean in Vineyard Haven.
Four suspects arrested in November in one of the largest heroin drug busts in Island history were indicted last week by a Dukes County grand jury on multiple counts, including trafficking heroin and dealing drugs near a school.
Indicted were Kaleb C. Garde, 26, of Vineyard Haven; Roseline J. Gaspar, 24, of Vineyard Haven; Garrett J. Gibson, 24, of Oak Bluffs; and Alexander W. Carlson, 22, of Edgartown.
Less than a month after a new state law went into effect decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana, law enforcement leaders, both on Vineyard and around the commonwealth, are crying foul.
And already legislation has been proposed to toughen the statute.
Demand for services is now at an all-time high at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, the Vineyard’s sole umbrella social services agency, and precisely at a time when funding has grown scarce amid a deepening economic recession.
“Things are busier than ever,” said Community Services director Julia Burgess in an interview with the Gazette this week. “There are a lot of people who need our help right now, so we have to work extra hard to keep up.”
