Sports
A budding Vineyard tradition resumes next week when two teams from the Cape Cod Baseball League — the Falmouth Commodores and Wareham Gatemen — play in the second annual John and Dorothy Connors Memorial Cup. The game is at 1 p.m. on Thursday at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School baseball diamond.
By JOHN AMABILE
The Holmes Hole Sailing Association commenced its summer season of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven harbor with a tune-up race on June 14. Six boats posted at the start at red nun six outside the breakwater for the noon commencement of the 35th season of the association races. Hugh Swarz, one of the founders, was on the race committee boat.
Salve Workshop
Holly Bellebuono of Vineyard Herbs returns to the Polly Hill Arboretum on Tuesday, July 7 from 1 to 3 p.m. for her popular salve-making workshop. This fun hands-on workshop starts with a walk to identify and collect medicinal herbs. Afterwards participants make their own oil infusions and beeswax-based ointments. Learn practical knowledge on when and how to use herbal salves, and take home your useful creation. Supplies are included. Cost is $40, $35 for Polly Hill Arboretum members. Please register in advance, call 508-693-9426.
The Vineyard sent three youth soccer teams to the annual Massachusetts Tournament of Champions this past weekend in Lancaster and each team represented the Island admirably. Both the under-12 team and the under-18 team advanced to the final four of the state tournament, while the under-16 team won a game and tied another before being eliminated.
The seventh annual Vineyard Streetball Classic, a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, is slated for Saturday, July 4 at Niantic Park in Oak Bluffs. Opening rounds begin at 10 a.m.
Ravaging of the river herring population by midwater trawlers and an absence of round-the-clock environmental police protection were the hot topics at a meeting between Cape and Islands Rep. Tim Madden and members of the newly formed Martha’s Vineyard Dukes County Fishermen’s Association Friday.