Commencement 2011

Graduating seniors at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will march down the aisle of the historic Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, and though the forecast is iffy, with luck they will walk between storms. No matter the weather. These students, like those at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, who graduated with the sun shining on them last weekend, are used to change.

My parents’ best friend, the artist William Blakesley, has a birthday tradition of hosting his friends for a restaurant dinner. This year he has been planning the seating for some months and asked my father six months beforehand to make the toast, although forbidding him from starting with the words, Dearly Beloved.

Editor’s Note: What follows is the text of the speech given by Marc Lefevre, mayor of Sainte-Mè re-É glise honoring Fred B. Morgan Jr. and Duaine Pinkston, medics of the 505 PIR, 82nd AB. Mr. Morgan traveled to Normandy this week for the event; a story about his trip appears on Page Five in today’s edition.

What follows are an edited selection of reader comments reacting to the June 3 Gazette story about new rules for dogs on Lambert’s Cove Beach.

What a miserable enforcement nightmare this will be. Joan’s life is busy enough already, without adding this sort of automatic-torture “legislation.”

Tom Hodgson

West Tisbury

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On the Boards

From Gazette editions of June, 1986:

SKATE CAMP CLARIFICATION

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

We were eager and honored to have our camp included in this year’s Vineyard summer camp round up (“Kids Are All Right With So Many Island Camps,” June 3.) And while it’s exciting to see such an artful lead photograph depicting a young and talented skateboarder, we were disappointed to find the content of the photograph and caption below to be irresponsibly misleading.