Cell phone coverage in Chilmark and Aquinnah will get a boost, this time for Verizon customers, after the major carrier signed on to use the digital antenna system (DAS) in the up-Island towns.

Chilmark executive secretary Tim Carroll said on Wednesday that testing is in its final stages, and that full Verizon Wireless service could be available as soon as June 1 or July 1 at the latest. AT&T signed on to the DAS system as a carrier last year.

They met in Worcester when they were both in kindergarten. The 81-year love story of David and Doris (Swallow) Cron ended last week when Doris died Friday, May 24 and David died 28 hours later on Saturday, May 25, both at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. They had been married for 66 years and were respected real estate professionals on the Island.

Senior personnel changes are underway in Oak Bluffs, with the longtime town clerk retiring and a new acting fire chief in place.

Town clerk Deborah deBettencourt Ratcliff, who has worked for the office for 25 years and served as town clerk since 1997, announced her retirement this week. Her last day will be June 30.

The selectmen accepted her retirement with regret at their meeting Tuesday, and appointed assistant town clerk Laura Johnston as the acting town clerk.

Robert McLaughlin and Gabriella Morizio purchased 17 Boldwater Road for $3,000,000 on May 23.

Brian P. Woolf purchased 7 Bittersweet Lane for $830,000 on May 21.

John P. Hansen and Sandra Jones-Hansen purchased 344 and 346 Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road for $285,000 on May 24.

John A. Eller and Lisa M. Eller purchased 43C Dark Woods Road for $803,000 on May 20.

At a meeting Tuesday Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss said he would like to avoid appointing an interim principal to replace outgoing principal Michael Halt, and hire a permanent principal in time for the start of the school year next September.

Othman Awqatty of Edgartown graduated from Curry College in Milton, Mass., on Sunday, May 19. 

Connor Chisholm of Edgartown graduated from Boston College High School on Sunday, May 19.