A former Edgartown man charged 20 years ago in two separate incidents — for allegedly robbing Claudia’s jewelry store in Edgartown and an aggravated rape and burglary of a female victim, also in Edgartown — will appear in Dukes County Superior Court on Monday for a bail hearing during the fall court session.
A longtime employee of the Capawock movie theatre, known to many as George the ticket man, was robbed by two unknown assailants Tuesday evening while dropping off receipts for the evening in a nearby overnight bank deposit box.
Tisbury police chief John Cashin said George Buckley, 79, of Lagoon Pond Road, was robbed around 8:35 p.m. by two young males as he approached the night deposit box at the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank branch at 65 Main street — about two blocks from the theatre.
Mr. Buckley was not injured in the attack.
A plan to allow the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High school to join the Eastern Athletic Conference — a sports league predominantly made up of parochial schools from the South Shore — has been greeted enthusiastically by many coaches, school officials, students and parents.
For the first time, state officials on Wednesday publicly unveiled plans for a permanent retractable bridge and its estimated price tag of $35 million, slated to replace the failing Lagoon Pond drawbridge in Vineyard Haven.
Wednesday’s presentation by project planners and officials from MassHighway offered the first look at plans and renderings for the new permanent bridge. The presentation included a PowerPoint display and a three-dimensional computer simulation program that showed the new bridge from all angles.
In a game that was decided by the end of the first half, the Vineyard football team dominated Bishop Connolly 43-0 in their home opener on Friday to gain an early share of the division lead in the Mayflower League large.
For coach Donald Herman the rout was the perfect antidote to the bitter pill of last week’s 23-21 loss to Carver, a game in which the Vineyarders took a lead with less than two minutes to play, only to give it back in the closing seconds on a Carver touchdown and two-point conversion.
In a game as thrilling as it was heartbreaking, the Carver Crusaders defeated the Vineyarders football team 23-21 on Friday night after scoring a game-tying touchdown and converting a two-point attempt with seconds left on the clock.
The Vineyarders (1-1) had late game heroics of their own, scoring with 1:38 on the clock when Mike McCarthy hit Nick Gross in the end zone for an 11-yard touchdown pass to take a 21-15 lead. But the Crusaders stormed right back and tied the game on a 35-yard touchdown run by Brandon Holbrook.
