An Oak Bluffs business owner was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault and battery last week following a four-day jury trial in Edgartown district court.

Saurabh Chhibber, 29, was sentenced to two and a half years in state prison. He is the owner of Island Authentic, a T-shirt and souvenir shop on Circuit avenue.

A 28-foot sailboat named after a John Coltrane ballad was christened and launched on Saturday at the Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway in Vineyard Haven.

Naima, the sailboat’s name, is an Arabic woman’s name, said the new owner, Bill Ryan, of State College, Pa.

Mr. Ryan, a Penn State meteorologist, and his wife, Joan Richtsmeier, shared the launch with a handful of friends.

Bob Daniels sat on the edge of his red pickup truck, a bounty of flowers, kale, potatoes and rhubarb spread out on the table in front of him, waiting for the market bell to ring. As one of the longest-selling vendors at the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market, Mr. Daniels has been waiting for the opening bell every June for the past 36 years.

Following a three-car accident last month at the intersection of Old County and State Roads in West Tisbury that sent three people to the hospital and left two seriously injured, town leaders last week again made a public push for the state to redesign the intersection widely seen as one of the most dangerous on the Island.

Selectmen held a public discussion about the troublesome Y-shaped intersection during their regular meeting last Wednesday.

In January, while Vineyarders endured battering sleet storms and mid-winter cabin fever, at least one of the Island’s piping plovers was enjoying a respite from the New England doldrums in the Caribbean. After a two-decade hiatus in researching plover migration, scientists from the Canadian Wildlife Service again started a tagging effort this winter in the Bahamas that has just begun to offer insight into the migration and behavior of this tenacious and much ballyhooed little creature, one of whom will call Aquinnah home this summer.

Every year, the Tisbury Great Pond shoreline comes closer to Wesley Edens’s house. Without a huge stone revetment, he, his engineers and lawyers believe, his home will fall into its water view.

But the West Tisbury conservation commission said no to his plan to armor the shoreline, and so now Mr. Edens, a prominent Wall Street financier, and the town are headed for court.

Sunday was brought to the graduating class of 2010 by the letter G: graduation, giving, getting, good-byes and good luck, all wished upon these students from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal Stephen Nixon, who hoped they would carry the lessons learned at high school with the same enthusiasm as they had those from Sesame Street.

From a 1991 Gazette article by Arthur Railton:

We can all quote William Shakespeare on the subject: What’s in a name? Forget how he answered the question. He was dead wrong. There’s a lot in a name. And the Vineyard provides proof, plenty of it. Years ago, many parents turned to the Bible when naming their children. But when Biblical names seemed inappropriate, parents often came up with something truly inspired.

Their hands were stained red, their backs a little sore, but the smell of strawberries, as though you had stuck your head straight into a strawberry pie, washed over them.

Dean’s List

Maureen Fitzpatrick, of Oak Bluffs, has been named to the dean’s list for the spring term at Champlain College. She is majoring in early childhood/elementary education.