Edgartown attorney Edward W. (Peter) Vincent Jr. appeared in district court this morning on charges of larceny by embezzlement over $250 and fiduciary embezzlement. His arraignment on criminal charges was postponed until May 19, after his attorney, Richard, Piazza, this morning cited an agreement on the continuance with the attorney general.

Mr. Vincent’s wife and daughter attended the hearing before the Hon. Herman J. Smith.

Edward W. (Peter) Vincent Jr. was arrested on criminal charges by Edgartown police on Friday afternoon. Mr. Vincent is now in the Edgartown house of correction, where he will be held for the weekend pending arraignment in district court, Edgartown police confirmed.

The arrest took place at 4:15 p.m. Friday; Mr. Vincent was handcuffed and taken from his South Water street home to the county jail.

Caitlin Borck has joined Mass Audubon at Felix Neck as the new seasonal coastal waterbird and citizen science coordinator.

She earned her master’s of science degree in biology with an emphasis in applied ecology at eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Ky., and her bachelor of science degree in biology from the University of Findlay with an emphasis in wildlife management. She worked for two summers on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in western Kentucky studying endangered interior least terns.

First Aid, CPR Training

American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter, will hold an adult CPR/AED and first aid class on April 16 at the YMCA. The course covers knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize and provide basic care for cardiac and breathing emergencies and Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) use. The CPR/AED certification is valid for two years as is the first aid certification. All students will receive training manuals and certification cards.

The theory of relativity is a tough one to wrap your head around. Something about time and space and perhaps even a spacetime continuum thrown in. Something to do with all of this being relative too. But to what?

That pounding in the head is ignorance landing a heavy blow.

But there is no need to leave all the fun to Einstein and the physicists anymore. This Saturday, April 9 from 1 to 3 p.m. Dr. Eric Brodheim is coming to the Vineyard to put a down-to-earth spin on this complex theory.

Though the weather has been slow to warm, spring sports are heating up at the regional high school.

The boys’ lacrosse team took a 16-3 loss to Weston, last year’s number eight MIAA seed, in their first home game of the season. Playing tough nonleague opponents, however, is a crucial part of the lacrosse program, said head coach Chris Greene.

Matt Tobin has been a horticulturist for 40 years and organically inclined for just as long, but he has more than a green thumb.

“I’m very conscious about organics and being green, but I like to call it bright green. A lot of green isn’t so green, it has a lot of petroleum wrapped around it,” Mr. Tobin said on a rainy afternoon this week at Eden Market and Garden Center in Vineyard Haven. “You are what you eat. If you eat good food, you’re good folk.”

Nica Sylvia

Nica Sylvia of West Tisbury, a junior majoring in civil engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, recently completed an intense, hands-on research project in Melbourne, Australia. The project was titled Building Sustainable Behaviour: Interactive Displays for Youth Empowerment.

Each year 200,000 women and men are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States alone. Erin Kokoszka has felt this statistic personally. “My maternal grandmother and all of her sisters have been affected by breast cancer,” she said. “My grandmother is a survivor and her other living sister is a survivor, but she’s lost two sisters. My two great-aunts have both been killed by the disease.”

I really had no idea what to expect as I approached the Chilmark Community Center a little after 7 p.m. on Saturday night, but I hoped it would be like days of old when — as teenagers — we would make the long trek from down-Island to square-dance or listen to folksingers like Jesse Benton or David Gude. I was not disappointed.