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From Pegasus and unicorns to Mr. Ed and My Little Pony, magical, communicative horses abound in our mythologies. Tapping into this latent suspicion that our maned mounts are more than mere beasts of burden is Gary Douglas, a new age educator who calls himself the Horse Medium.
The 21st annual Pat West gaff-rig and schooner race will take place tomorrow. The first gun is at 10:30 a.m. The start is right off Eastville Beach and East Chop. Sailors will race their craft to West Chop and then go to a buoy off Edgartown and then race back. The total length of the race course is about 15 miles.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team got off to a solid start of the season Friday with a convincing, no-nonsense 14-0 win over familiar rival Old Rochester on a rainy night in Mattapoisett.
The Vineyarders ran the option play to perfection all night, and senior Mike McCarthy scored both touchdowns on short runs in the first half to put the game away. A steady rain fell throughout the game making for soggy field conditions, but the Vineyarders’ defense was still able to clamp down and shut down the Bulldogs’ attack.
Jim Gordon recalled the day 16 years ago when he took a leap and volunteered to be a Big Brother.
“His eyes got me. They showed me four or five pictures of kids and wanted me to take the kid who’d been waiting the longest, but he was the one. It was like looking at myself at his age — the pain and loneliness,” he said.
Mr. Gordon, voted by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martha’s Vineyard as its first man of the year in 1997, feels more blessed by a relationship with an eight-year-old African American kid than by accolades.
Daniel Larkosh, a trial lawyer and West Tisbury resident, clinched the Democratic nomination for Cape and Islands state representative Tuesday, becoming the first Vineyarder to secure the position since the district was created in 1988.
Should he win in November, it will be the first time the Vineyard has had its own representative in the state house in over 30 years.
It was a highly contested primary featuring three Vineyard candidates, a Falmouth resident and a Nantucket write-in candidate who ran a highly successful campaign in his home county.
The future of the Home Port is in the hands of Chilmark voters who will decide whether to approve town purchase of the 70-year-old restaurant and surrounding property at a special town meeting Monday.
Voters face at least two choices: according to the first article on the warrant if the town buys the Home Port for $2 million, the restaurant will be taken down to make way for a park area, a site for additional public parking and rest room facilities and public access to the waterfront.