Almost four years ago, just after her 12th birthday, Jessica Rose
Seidman ordered a half dozen chicken eggs from a catalogue and built her
own incubator. One hatched. She named him Chickie and raised him as a
pet in her backyard coop.

A docile, tame and beautiful Rhode Island Red rooster, Chickie in
the time since has earned four first-place awards in Martha's
Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair - three
times best in show.

When the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) broke ground on a community center building in the spring of 2004, tribal leaders envisioned it as an important gathering place, and said young members would be shooting hoops inside the new gymnasium by the end of the summer.

Three years later, the building is still unoccupied, sitting half-finished on tribal lands.

From his perch in Poole's Fish Market, which he ran for half a
century, Captain Everett H. Poole watched Menemsha harbor fade from
being one of the busiest fishing ports on the East Coast.