An Oak Bluffs woman who allegedly left a young boy she was babysitting alone in an SUV for several hours is facing a manslaughter charge after the boy died. And middle schoolers on the Island celebrate a basketball championship.

Charles Uchendu will spend the next two weeks working with Canadian firefighters to suppress the more than 100 fires that have been ravaging forests in the province since early this month.

The new cap on spending commits the school to only use the remaining balance of this year's legal budget on the turf appeal.

The Oak Bluffs select board voted Tuesday to issue a request for proposals for the project, which will put a roundabout at the chaotic intersection on the waterfront.

A woman was found dead outside her Munroe avenue home Saturday. State police wrote in a statement they believe the woman had been outside in the extreme cold for an unknown period of time, possibly overnight.

The Martha's Vineyard Commission unanimously approved the Southern Tier housing complex Thursday. It must now go through the Oak Bluffs permitting process.

The clothing store Laughing Bear and its owner Annie Schwenk have been constants on Circuit avenue since 1985.

In the report of the harbor and land commissioners to the legislature details are given of the construction of a harbor at Lake Anthony.

The construction of a harbor at this place was authorized by chapter 441 of the acts of 1898, the appropriation therefore being $5,000.