It’s Wednesday morning, and Brian Morris, a recovery coach and mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) access coordinator, rallies a team in a virtual meeting to discuss plans to help an Island resident deemed to be at elevated risk due to substance use. The approaching busy season brings with it higher rates of substance […]
The owner of a pistol who belatedly reported it lost to Edgartown Police has failed to get her Massachusetts license to carry firearms reinstated after it was suspended. At a hearing on Jan. 6, Catherine Tobin told Edgartown District Court Judge Benjamin Barnes she was unsure when she lost a .380 caliber Sig Sauer pistol […]
Edgartown Police officers successfully took a 28-year-old man into custody without hurting him, after he allegedly threatened them with a knife, a shard of glass, and a shovel. When officers arrived, “they saw the defendant before them … He’s armed with a knife in his left hand, a piece of broken glass in his right […]
Islanders’ quadrupedal neighbors are on the rut again this fall. November is peak deer mating season in the state, according to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. With more activities happening with the deer, that means more possibilities for collisions between the animals and vehicles on Martha’s Vineyard. “The auto vs deer strikes are […]
Edgartown police arrested a Belgian man living in Oak Bluffs on Tuesday and charged him with allegedly operating a vehicle with a suspended license and failing to stop for a school bus with flashing red lights. Tony Willems, 51, was driving a white Ford sedan near Weeks Lane traveling towards a school bus that had […]