Both cross-country teams and boys’ soccer continued their dominance of the Eastern Athletic Conference this week with wins over Coyle-Cassidy and Somerset (cross-country) and CC and Bishop Stang (soccer). The Island rivalry starts up this weekend with a visit from Nantucket. The Whalers will play both soccer teams and field hockey on Saturday.

Tina Miller, former general manager of Plum TV on Martha’s Vineyard, has been named director of sales and business partnerships for the Vineyard Gazette.

The appointment was announced this week by publisher Jane Seagrave, who said the role was a new one for the Gazette, which also publishes Martha’s Vineyard Magazine and the Best Read Guide of Martha’s Vineyard. Ms. Miller will report to general manager Joe Pitt, working with the company’s advertising sales staff to develop new ways to help local businesses expand their customer base.

A disbarred Edgartown attorney has been charged with unlawfully practicing law and taking thousands of dollars from an accident victim who hired him to perform legal services.

John C. McBride, 62, was arraigned last week on charges stemming from his alleged legal representation of David Silva, 48, also of Edgartown, who suffered injuries in a May bicycling accident and sought damages from the town.

A longtime Chappaquiddick resident who gave a parcel of land to the town for conservation told the selectmen this week that he objects to a possible plan to build a cell tower on the property.

Appearing at the selectmen's meeting Tuesday, Bill Brine said he was “highly disturbed” that the town would consider putting a tower up on the 9.4-acre parcel on Narraganssett avenue. He also said a conservation restriction on the land prohibits development.

By PETER BRANNEN

With the rut just around the corner and hot-and-bothered deer at their most reckless, the Massachusetts Highway Department has told the town of West Tisbury it is done disposing of dead deer on state roads.

“Last Friday Mass Highway was called because a dead deer was on a state road and generally they go out and pick it up but they informed us they’re not going to do it anymore,” said town administrator Jen Rand. “The reason being they say there’s no place to put it.”

Correction

In a Sept. 9 story about a woman who was inspired to compete in the Vineyard Warrior Triathlon by the events of 9/11, the athlete, Jennifer Sanford, misstated the name of her husband’s relative who was killed in the attack on the World Trade Center. He was Louis Caporicci, not Frank Piacentino. The Gazette regrets the error.

After a clerical error in this year’s community development block grant application saw the Island miss out on $2 million in money for child care assistance and housing rehabilitation, Oak Bluffs residents in need will still get some relief from an overlooked program account.

Most of Sengekontacket Pond has been reopened for clamming and quahaugging.

The pond was opened on Saturday of Columbus Day weekend after shellfish constables in Edgartown and Oak Bluffs got a green light from the state.

The bay scallop fishery opened on Oct. 1, but the state kept the pond closed to quahaugging and clamming pending the results of further tests. The pond has been closed to shellfishing since June for the fourth year due to bacterial contamination. The source of the contamination is not clearly understood.

Please Adopt Us

Beverly Wright, former chairman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and current Aquinnah selectman, remembers when Cranberry Day lasted for three days and off-Island tribal members would come to the Vineyard to participate.

She can remember riding on an oxcart to the Aquinnah cranberry bogs, going down dirt paths that no longer exist and cutting across back roads before Lighthouse Road was paved.

Even years later, the excitement of Cranberry Day remains.