Several Oak Bluffs businesses were shut down and at least one person was reportedly sent to the hospital Sunday morning following a volatile oil delivery mishap near the Sand Bar and Grill that sent a powerful geyser of diesel fuel into the air which rained down on rooftops as far as two blocks away.

It was a claustrophobe's nightmare and a hungry man's dream at the 37th annual Tisbury Street Fair on Sunday night.

When Island blues guitarist and singer Maynard Silva, 56, developed cancer two years ago, his son Milo, 20, returned from college to care for him, and then, as he recovered, to sing with him when Maynard couldn't.

Interviews by Mike Seccombe

Maynard: "He had to take care of me while I was sick. And it was a tough thing for an 18 year-old kid to be dealing with a guy who was in the kind of shape I was at the time.

The eve of the start of the 84th annual Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta is a bit awkward for club manager William J. (Bill) Roman, 49.

For 21 years of working at the club, Mr. Roman has stayed low and focused his attention on making sure the affairs of the club go without a hitch. In a typically understated manner, he has hidden himself and sought to meet the needs of the club, its 875 members and their friends.

Betsy Sheerr Leads Hebrew Center Institute

By MIKE SECCOMBE

The summer speaker series put on by the Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center, explained Betsy Sheerr, is not a Jewish thing, although she explained its motivation - and her own - in distinctly Jewish terms.

"There is in Judaism an important concept of repairing the world: Tikun olam," said the new chairman of the center's Summer Institute.

Beverly Sills, coloratura soprano, devoted supporter of the arts and longtime Vineyard seasonal resident, died on Monday at her home in New York city of lung cancer. Ms. Sills, who was 78, was the wife of the late Peter B. Greenough, a retired financial writer for the Boston Globe, who died last September.