Looking for nonstop fun and excitement? Then go to the new Tilton’s Market at the Union Street Mall in Vineyard Haven when the UPS delivery van shows up.

The man in brown looked startled last Monday morning as Kathleen and Tania Tilton whooped and hollered at his appearance, and as they opened cartons of teas and coffees and exotic foods to further stock their new specialty food boutique around the corner from Riley’s Reads.

West Tisbury private landowners bordering Mill Brook may be eligible for a state program that offers to pay 75 per cent of costs associated with cleaning the environment on their property as water flows through on its way into Mill Pond.

West Tisbury selectmen last week decided to race the bureaucratic clock to clean up the Mill Pond.

Selectmen will file for funding approval by the Oct. 31 deadline and will place a warrant article before a special town meeting to be called next month in order to begin construction work late next summer, if voters and regulators approve the project.

The couldashouldawoulda’s are a week old now but the fact is the Vineyarders are still in the mix for a league title and a trip to their eighth Super Bowl despite a frustrating 8-6 loss to Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical High School last Friday night.

Bill and Lynne Macomber have just returned from Hershey, Pa., where they were vendors at an Antique Automobile Club of America flea market, along with about 10,000 other vendors. The annual event is the largest such gathering in the world and is attended by people from all over the globe. In the back of their 1940 Ford Panel Truck, they transported an Antique Motorcycle Club of America award-winning 1936 Indian motorcycle that Bill had restored.

An eye-popping derby to be sure but no eyes popped wider than junior angler Chris Morris’s when his key sprung open the padlock that awarded him the 19-foot Boston Whaler complete with a 115-horsepower Mercury motor and a trailer last Sunday at the 2007 62nd annual striped bass and bluefish derby awards ceremony at Outerland.

Chris, with the top shore bluefish, was one of eight division winners lined up on stage with a key and a chance to win either a 2008 Chevy Silverado four by four truck or the fishing boat.

Rayssa Arrives

Cristiane and Rubons Moraes of Edgartown announce the birth of Rayssa Pessotti Moraes on Oct. 6 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Rayssa weighed 10 pounds, 14 ounces at birth.

JUNE MANNING

508-645-2574

(lthslnks@gis.net)

Al Alley of Boston recently visited with his father Forrest Alley and with mom Emily Packish Frank in Vineyard Haven.

Joseph Bozyczko, his wife Vicky and their children Michael, Mikayla and Matthew were at their Lighthouse Road home over the long weekend.

An increase in special needs students is driving Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss to seek hundreds of thousands of dollars for a new combined elementary program targeting children with autism or severe communication disorders.

Announcing Kellry

Kenia Aredes and Jean M. da Silva of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a daughter, Kellry Marques Aredes, born Oct. 4 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces at birth.