A Vineyard Haven man was charged with felony assault and battery with a deadly weapon on Sunday after he allegedly tried to steal an item from an Edgartown store and then hit one of the store’s employees with his car in the parking lot.
Deacon Perrotta, the water superintendent for Tisbury and Oak Bluffs who has come under scrutiny the past two years for an unusual contractual agreement with both towns, unexpectedly resigned from his job in both towns last month.
Mr. Perrotta first announced his plans to step down in early June, and his last day on the job was last Wednesday. He resigned after negotiating an agreement with the Tisbury Water Works and Oak Bluffs Water District stipulating that each town pay him a severance package of $45,000 plus unused vacation time.
Just picture a clear and sunny July afternoon at the ballpark on the Vineyard.
The home team is down in the bottom of the ninth when a lanky outfielder projected by many scouts to be a future major leaguer strides to the plate with a chance to win the game for the hometown nine.
After five years of lawsuits, appeals and bitter contention, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to approve a plan for an addition to the Oak Bluffs home of Joseph Moujabber, closing at least one chapter in the prolonged saga over the three-storey garage built without a permit back in 2003.
The approved plan among other things calls for the garage — dubbed garage mahal by critics — to be torn down and replaced by a new addition on the rear of Mr. Moujabber’s existing home on Sea View avenue extension.
It was not so much a matter of life imitating art as of life contradicting art.
More than 30 years ago, when they were filming the movie Jaws on Martha’s Vineyard, a young Jonathan Searle played the part of a kid who scared people out of the water by using a fake fin to pretend to be a great white shark.
But just a few days ago the same Jonathan Searle played a different role. Not the guy who carries out the shark hoax, but the police officer who busts the guy who carried out the shark hoax.
Oak Bluffs selectmen Tuesday unanimously agreed to permanently adopt a new policy allowing bars and nightclubs to serve drinks until 1 a.m. Patrons will be allowed to stay inside bars until 1:30 a.m.
The board voted to allow the later closing times on a temporary basis in May. The decision to accept the policy permanently took place Tuesday with little discussion. Police Chief Eric Blake said he met with several bar owners who told him the later closing times have not created additional problems.
