Following an investigation into the Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Tournament in July that included undercover surveillance and videotaping, the Humane Society of the United States announced yesterday that it had evidence of high-stakes illegal gambling activities occurring during the controversial fishing tournament.
The society, which opposes the tournament, has sent a letter to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley calling for an investigation into the alleged illegal gambling.
Assailing their critics, backers of the Bradley Square project in Oak Bluffs announced abruptly this week that they were putting the property up for sale.
Patrick Manning, executive director of the Island Affordable Housing Fund, sent an e-mail to fellow project backers Tuesday morning stating that continued opposition to the project coupled with the possibility of legal appeals led to the decision.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team got off to a solid start of the season Friday with a convincing, no-nonsense 14-0 win over familiar rival Old Rochester on a rainy night in Mattapoisett.
The Vineyarders ran the option play to perfection all night, and senior Mike McCarthy scored both touchdowns on short runs in the first half to put the game away. A steady rain fell throughout the game making for soggy field conditions, but the Vineyarders’ defense was still able to clamp down and shut down the Bulldogs’ attack.
Jim Gordon recalled the day 16 years ago when he took a leap and volunteered to be a Big Brother.
“His eyes got me. They showed me four or five pictures of kids and wanted me to take the kid who’d been waiting the longest, but he was the one. It was like looking at myself at his age — the pain and loneliness,” he said.
Mr. Gordon, voted by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martha’s Vineyard as its first man of the year in 1997, feels more blessed by a relationship with an eight-year-old African American kid than by accolades.
The West Tisbury selectmen on Wednesday gave an emphatic thumbs-down to a plan now under consideration by the Martha’s Vineyard Airport commission to allow an advertising company to sell space in the airport terminal and along the tarmac that would be visible to arriving passengers.
The Oak Bluffs historical commission on Wednesday responded to allegations that a cottage in the federally protected Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association may have been torn down and partially expanded earlier this summer, possibly in violation of a town bylaw strictly regulating the demolition of historical structures.
