Sam Bungey has been named online editor for the Vineyard Gazette, newspaper editor Julia Wells announced this week. Mr. Bungey grew up in London and graduated from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in 2003. After university he launched Mongrel, a monthly youth-culture magazine that he ran for four years. Published in Dublin, the magazine was circulated nationwide.

He began working as a reporter for the Gazette in September of 2007. The nephew of Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz of Vineyard Haven, he lives in Chilmark.

The newly created Martha’s Vineyard Tactical Response Team was dispatched for the first time on Saturday to assist West Tisbury police with a warrant arrest of a man with a history of violent crime.

On Friday police were notified by the Barnstable superior court probation department of a probation warrant for William F. Campbell, who lives on Great Pond Road. Police said that Mr. Campbell had violated probation by not keeping his personal tracking unit on; his whereabouts were unknown.

Chickie will not be moved. The prize-winning red rooster owned by a family on Mayflower Lane in Vineyard Haven was given permission Thursday to remain in the yard by the zoning board of appeals, ending a protracted neighborhood dispute.

At a largely procedural hearing Thursday, the board a granted a permit based on a compromise worked out between town counsel from Koppelman & Paige, P.C., and George Davis, a lawyer for Chickie’s owner Jessica Seidman.

Trainer of the Year

Mark McCarthy, son of Mabel and the late Daniel McCarthy of Oak Bluffs and a graduate of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, was recently recognized by the Connecticut Athletic Trainers’ Association as athletic trainer of the year.

The honor recognizes his commitment and dedication to the treatment and management of sports concussions.

The class of 2009 shared the Oak Bluffs Tabernacle with another special group of graduates at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High school graduation ceremony Sunday. In honor of the 50th graduating class, the high school invited members of the first representatives from the class of 1960—to join in the ceremony. The former students led the class procession through the crowd of spectators that filled the Tabernacle and spilled out onto the surrounding lawn on a sunny afternoon.

There is a kinetic movement to the Taste of the Vineyard, the annual feast and fund-raiser for the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust. It’s the giddy energy of hundreds of people who skipped lunch, and maybe breakfast, playing gourmand for the night. Sampling. Sipping. Spying what’s ahead. Suddenly it’s forget the forks; it’s just finger food, faster and faster, with less and less room in the belly, until finally, barely two hours after the tent doors opened, there’s no right move but to dance.

It was more exciting than the circus coming to town. At long last (although in the normal course of Martha’s Vineyard rebuilding, records for speed were set), the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore on Main street in Vineyard Haven, destroyed last July 4 in a fire that started next door at Café Moxie, stood this past Saturday, June 13, at 9 in the morning with a purple ribbon stretched across windows and doors awaiting the celebratory snip of the scissors.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Thursday voted without dissent to approve a town-sponsored initiative to build a new gas station for boaters on the Oak Bluffs harbor. The plan was approved after a rapid review, during which several commissioners acknowledged the importance of having fuel in the harbor in time for the busy summer season.

The Cape Cod Commission has petitioned the state’s highest court to overturn the approval by the state Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) of the Cape Wind project.

At stake for the commission, though, is more than just the question Cape Wind’s future; it is the broader principle of its power in regulating development, and by extension, the power of its sister body, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

Speed was a factor and charges are expected against the 17-year-old driver in the single-car accident on Edgartown-West Tisbury Road that claimed the life of 18-year-old Jena Pothier of Oak Bluffs Thursday evening, police said yesterday.

West Tisbury police chief Beth Toomey said charges will be brought against Kelly McCarron, 17, of Oak Bluffs, who was seriously injured in the crash and remains in serious but stable condition at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.