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The Jaws 50th celebration officially gets underway this weekend, but Island businesses have been hard at work in the preceding months gearing up with merchandise tied to the iconic film.
Acrylic paintings, photographs and woodcut prints, alongside imaginative corresponding floral arrangements fill the Old Mill this weekend for Blooming Art, a fundraiser for the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club.
The Vineyard Preservation Trust kicked off its 50th anniversary celebrations Thursday with Taste of the Vineyard, one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for the organization.
There will be a public information session regarding the new Edgartown Fire Station on Wednesday, June 18, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
On Tuesday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m., Chabad on the Vineyard will host an evening with Sapir Cohen and Sasha Troufanov — two former Israeli hostages who survived 55 and 498 days, respectively, in Hamas captivity.
The family of Island lawyer Ron Rappaport and the Martha’s Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation have raised $1.5 million for a scholar fund in his memory.