Recreation
Sometimes you have to look a gift horse in the mouth. That was the lesson of a hand Paul Laliberte and I played in an OKBridge tournament last week.
Chilmark’s Miles Jaffe spends his winters playing bridge, among other things, in New Zealand and France, but a lesson he learned at the Hartford, Conn., Bridge Club really struck home.
What good came out of this accursèd winter? Only indoor activities.
For the first time in more than five decades, there will be no basketball in Niantic Park this summer due to major renovations planned for the popular Oak Bluffs hangout. Construction is slated to begin mid-April.
The Vineyard Coast Guard Auxiliary will offer a two-week GPS course for mariners this month. The course will meet on Feb. 11 and Feb. 18 (both Wednesdays) from 6 to 8 p.m. at the regional high school.
Vineyard Haven’s Jiri Luncar won the runner-up trophy in the finals match with winner Robert Duperron of New Hampshire at the MIT table tennis open in Cambridge on Sunday.