Revised Yellow House Plan Attracts Lone Bid
A sole applicant is in the running in Edgartown’s second search for someone to lease and renovate the Yellow House.
Sara Brown
A West Tisbury man was killed Monday when the car he was driving collided with a tree on Old County Road, according to the West Tisbury police.
David S. Campbell, 25, was traveling northeast on Old County Road in a green 2004 Honda Accord when the car went across the roadway near Skiffs Lane and hit a tree, according to a press release by the West Tisbury police department. The incident happened at about 3:15 p.m.
Questions of size and character dominated discussion at a Martha’s Vineyard Commission public hearing Thursday night, the third such session the commission has held on plans to renovate and expand the Stop & Shop Vineyard Haven store.
Plans for a large expansion and renovation of the Vineyard Haven Stop & Shop, which have raised concerns about a range of issues from aesthetics to traffic, had a slightly different look when they came before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission again Thursday night.
A Framingham man found dead near Lake Tashmoo last week either jumped or fell from a Steamship Authority ferry, police said.
Francis G. Elms, 74, of Framingham, was found fully clothed in the ocean west of the Lake Tashmoo opening by a caretaker on the morning of Sept. 25, according to state police Sgt. Jeffrey Stone. A state medical examiner has determined that the cause of death was drowning, Sergeant Stone said.
The fall sitting of the Dukes County superior court begins next Monday at the Edgartown courthouse.
The Hon. Cornelius J. Moriarty 2nd, an associate justice of the superior court, will preside over the session. A new grand jury convenes on Monday.
Several civil trials are on the schedule. The schedule is light on criminal matters, with jury trials scheduled for the end of the month for Darryl B. Baptiste and Patrece L. Petersen.
A Pennsylvania man charged with stealing more than $85,000 worth of jewelry and other items during a series of August home break-ins was sentenced last week to serve 18 months in a house of correction.
Damien N. Derose, 28, of Doylestown, Pa., pleaded guilty Sept. 27 in Edgartown district court to eight counts of breaking and entering a building in the daytime for a felony, six counts of larceny from a building, one count of attempt to commit a crime, one count of larceny more than $250 and one count of malicious destruction of property more than $250.