With a capacity of just 100 people and an increasing demand for its services, the Martha’s Vineyard Boys and Girls Club has outgrown its current facility. Now an ambitious plan to expand the clubhouse seems within reach.
Dairy Queen reopened Friday to a line out the door, ending a months-long ice cream drought in Edgartown.
On March 2, the federal government issued the last of its pandemic SNAP allotments, but a $1.3 million grant to the Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation is helping keep Islanders fed.
The grant comes from the CARES relief act and will help the foundation continue efforts to keep Vineyarders fed.
Competition will come second to community at the first annual Boys and Girls Jamboree basketball tournament this Saturday, hosted by the Martha's Vineyard Boys and Girls Club.
The weather outside may be frightful, but that didn't stop a group of Vineyarders from taking a dip in the cold waters off State Beach on Saturday to raise money for the boys and girls club.