Oak Bluffs police said this week that Brandy Marie Gibson, the 20-year-old Island woman who was killed in a two-car motor vehicle accident, was driving more than twice the legal speed limit when her vehicle hit a delivery truck at the intersection of Edgartown-Vineyard Haven and County Roads on Jan. 29.

A growing group of West Tisbury taxpayers, furious at their property tax bills and concerned about how the taxes are computed, received little solace during a stormy two-hour informational meeting with Vision Appraisal Technology on Tuesday evening at the Howes House.

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BreAnne Russell, sophomore forward on the high school girls’ hockey team, aptly sums up her love of the game by comparing it to a well-known circular food item.

A team of emergency responders, including members of the state police bomb squad, were called in after a grenade was found in a storage unit at the Sun Island Storage in Vineyard Haven on Feb. 5. Despite some tense moments, authorities eventually determined the grenade was not a threat and likely a novelty item or paper weight.

Aquinnah voters this week agreed to create the town’s first personnel board and employee classification system but indefinitely postponed a vote on creating four additional affordable housing units.

The action came at a special town meeting on Tuesday night in the Aquinnah town hall.

The Vineyard Gazette won 14 awards for excellence in journalism at the New England Press Association annual better newspaper competition, including five first place awards. The awards were given out on Saturday night at a dinner at the Marriott Copley in Boston. The competition included more than 5,000 entries from more than 300 small newspapers throughout New England.

The Gazette captured 12 awards in editorial and two in advertising.

In what is fast becoming a winter tradition, opponents of the Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Tournament appeared before Oak Bluffs selectmen Tuesday to again ask that the town end its involvement with the controversial sport fishing tournament held each summer.

The purchase of an 18.9-acre conservation restriction last week will expand the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank’s holdings at Sepiessa Point Reservation on the Tisbury Great Pond.

The land bank commission announced that it paid $654,500 for the restriction. The seller is Elizabeth Brown Bayer.

The property includes 2,180 feet of frontage on Tiah’s Cove, and is surrounded by the land bank’s 164-acre Sepiessa Point Reservation. Development on the property will be limited to a single building envelope around an existing home.

Announcing Leah

Nicole and Joseph deBettencourt of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Leah Nicole de Bettencourt, born Jan. 31 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Leah weighed 6.9 pounds at birth.

Repairs to the Dukes County courthouse roof could cost the county $148,000 at a time when the county commission is cutting regional services and scaling back expenditures.

The roof has been leaking since a storm in early winter, and at times water was seeping into the courthouse lights.