While debate continues about the placement of cell phone towers in other parts of the Island, Chappaquiddick residents continue to fight to bring cell phone and cable service to the small island off the coast of downtown Edgartown.

Despite previous warnings, an Oak Bluffs man will remain on probation after appearing in Superior Court Tuesday for allegedly violating his probation.

In October, Daniel A. Ben David, 50, pleaded guilty in Superior Court to charges of unarmed robbery and larceny more than $250 for his part in a 2011 theft of $85,000 from an Oak Bluffs man in his seventies.

A New York woman was sentenced to state prison Tuesday in Dukes County superior court on cocaine trafficking charges.

Mitefea Kelly, 18, pleaded guilty to trafficking in cocaine, 36 to 100 grams, and was sentenced to four to six years at Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham, a medium-security prison for women, by the Hon. Robert C. Rufo, an associate justice of the superior court.

The charge was reduced from trafficking in cocaine, more than 200 grams.

Verizon’s proposal to build a cell phone tower to improve service in West Tisbury came before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission last week, sparking a long discussion and volumes of correspondence protesting the location of the tower near Tisbury Great Pond.

The company has proposed installing an 80-foot tower on a 50-square-foot piece of land on New Lane in West Tisbury, and has identified three potential locations for the tower. Two of the sites are in the inland zone of the coastal district of critical planning concern.

Radio station WMVY will continue after reaching its fundraising goal Friday evening, one day before the deadline.

A prominent Island businessman was sentenced to two years in the Dukes County house of correction Friday for child assault charges.