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Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Few in the audience were unmoved at the end of Assertions, a song, dance and theatre performance about bullying.

The Thursday night performance took place at the Performing Arts Center at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, and was a collaborative effort among Island schools — both the regional high school and the charter school — IMP Improv for kids, YMCA dancers, Joanne Cassidy and other musical guests.

The West Tisbury selectmen have formed a task force to broadly evaluate the Up-Island Regional School District, but district committee members say they will not participate.

“What you’re doing with this task force is the process the school committee goes through, which says to me you don’t trust us,” said committee chairman Dan Cabot at a meeting of the committee Thursday night that was attended by the West Tisbury selectmen.

The Devil’s Light,> Richard North Patterson, Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., N.Y. 2011, 337 pages, hardcover, $26.

It could happen. It is not un thinkable. The detonation of a nuclear bomb on a major city by al Qaeda 10 years to the day after the Sept. 11, 2001 attack.

In the pros, it’s not often that the team with the best regular-season record goes on to win it all. But at Veira Park on Saturday, that’s exactly what played out during the Little League Championship games. The league-leading Twins won the minor league trophy, defeating the Marlins 8-1, while the Cubs took a 2-1 victory over the Athletics.

Key leadership changes at the Oak Bluffs and Tisbury schools were announced by Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss yesterday.

Beginning August 1, Tisbury School principal Richard Smith will take the helm as principal at the Oak Bluffs School. And John Custer, assistant principal in Tisbury, will move up to become principal at that school.

Current Oak Bluffs principal Carlin Hart, who has been on the job for a year, will return to his former position as assistant principal in Oak Bluffs.

A treasure box discovered last month by Cub Scouts playing at Camp Duarte has been returned to its owner.

Rob Seaton, 33, an Oak Bluffs contractor, said the box of precious family items was stolen from his mother’s house in Vineyard Haven, October 2002.

Who’s the Best of the Vineyard? Winners in Martha’s Vineyard Magazine’s hotly contested competition were announced last night at a party at Flatbread Pizza at Nectar’s in Edgartown.

Two Vineyard Haven men were arrested in Oak Bluffs on Friday afternoon after they were found with a quantity of drugs, including heroin, marijuana, hashish and prescription drugs, police said.

Oak Bluffs police arrested Jeffrey Sylvia, 23, and Jeffrey Rancourt, also 23, both of Vineyard Haven, at about 2 p.m. Friday in the Our Market parking lot, where they were in Mr. Rancourt’s pickup truck. “The two men had arrived to make a drug deal,” a press release from the Oak Bluffs police said.

By NINA TARNAWSKY

Welcome robot overlords. The Island’s own Tim Laursen, known on Friday night as Robot Drummer, took the stage at Nectar’s in a giant pink owl’s head with bright, lit-up yellow eyes, and four metal, retractable arms all connected to various instruments.

The smoke combined with the stage lights created a surreal atmosphere, though it was less take-me-to-your-leader and more I-come-in-peace.