Jake Baird died Friday morning from injuries sustained in a single-car accident. Two other students who were passengers were injured in the crash.

The Steamship Authority website was back up and running Thursday evening after being down for most of the opening day for coveted summer car reservations.

Edgartown developer Michael Hegarty and Mark Nicotera of Trademark Services LLC submitted proposals to renovate and lease the Yellow House on Main street in Edgartown.

With a search now under way for a new police chief in Edgartown, tension inside the department has bubbled to the surface in a town that has long prided itself on having relatively few internal problems.

With the new chief on duty and a line of firefighters cheering him on, former Edgartown fire chief Peter Shemeth rode off into retirement Monday evening — in a ladder truck.