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Brockton-Vineyard heroin connection broken by two arrests

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Drug Task force members moved into an adjacent hotel room and followed the Brockton men around the Island for two days before making the arrests.

8th-grade girls are champs of the Cape Hoops travel league

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Erin Hill led all scorers with 21 points, Molly deBettencourt had 7, and Whitney Schroeder shut down Falmouth's chief scorer, holding her to 8 points.

Ronald Dworkin

Ronald Dworkin, a liberal legal philosopher, died February 14 in London.

Blizzard hit and Martha’s Vineyard hunkered down

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Martha's Vineyard weathered a blizzard without much trouble. The story was very different on the mainland.

New $2.3 million teacher contract includes 7.5 percent hike

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Martha's Vineyard teachers agreed to a three-year deal that will add two days to the school schedule.

Quick-thinking rescuers pull horse from icy West Tisbury pond

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Deep snow drifts made it impossible to see where the pasture stopped and the ice-covered pond began.

Edgartown selectmen license two new package stores

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The decision to allow two seasonal licenses drew objection from the owner of Al's Package store.

Cape builders group reaches out for Island members

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Builders invited to informational meeting Friday, February 15, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm at the Harbor View in Edgartown.

Municipal association calls for delay in medical marijuana law

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The Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA), an advocacy group for local town governments, is urging member cities and towns to consider a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries or growing facilities until state regulators can create regulations to govern them.

SSA considers minimum age for unaccompanied children to travel

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The SSA members agreed to solicit customer feedback on a management proposal to require children 12 and under to be accompanied by an adult.

Edgartown fire department puts the brakes to truck fire

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After a busy storm-related weekend, Edgartown firefighters were called into action just after 7 pm on Monday by a report of a parked truck on fire near a house at 16 Sparrow Lane in the Dodger's Hole subdivision.

WBUR promises rich, but not local, programming

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WBUR radio executives, along with Robin Young, on-air host of the nationally syndicated "Here & Now" PBS news and information program, visited Martha's Vineyard Wednesday to meet and greet local community and business leaders.

Corrections

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A story published January 23, "Oak Bluffs questions county pest control program accounting," incorrectly attributed the following quote by selectman Walter Vail to finance and advisory committee chairman Steve Auerbach.

USPS plans to end Saturday service to RFD customers

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The Postal Service expects to save approximately $2 billion annually. Martha's Vineyard post office box customers will not be affected.

East Chop Drive damaged in storm, repairs run afoul of state law

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Oak Bluffs is working on a permanent solution for the washed out roadway, but coastal zone regulations make it a difficult fix.

Kingston auto dealer sweetens deal for Islander shoppers

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Marty's Buick, GMC, Isuzu dealership in Kingston off Route 3 is reaching out to Island residents who purchase a vehicle with an offer to pay for the ferry trip and help with some off-Island shopping.

Solar dollars

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The results of an inquiry into Massachusetts's growing solar energy industry, published in the winter 2013 edition of CommonWealth magazine and written by Bruce Mohl, confirms understandings popular among alternative energy skeptics.

Hats off to our friends and neighbors in emergency services

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Commenter dondondon12 wrote this week, "I don't know what Nstar is doing, but i hope they keep doing it.

Time for fresh thinking about erosion

In light of the wasteful expense, energy consumption, and environmental damage related to moving the Schifter house, necessitated by severe beach erosion at Wasque, I would like to suggest a relatively inexpensive alternative which could save the house as well as the beach.