The chief executive officer of Festival Network, the national entertainment promoter that has held a concert in Ocean Park featuring the Boston Pops for the past two years, has said the future of the concert is in doubt, largely because it lost money last year.
CEO Chris Shields has also leveled harsh accusations at the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard, saying that the nonprofit organization still owes his company thousands of dollars from ticket sales last August.
Against the backdrop of a sustained national recession, the board of directors for the YMCA of the Martha’s Vineyard voted unanimously last Friday to begin construction on the long-awaited 38,000-square-foot YMCA building to be built across from the regional high school on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road.
Echoes of the Roaring Twenties (think Cotton Club meets The Great Gatsby) will surface this Sunday, August 3, at the Starbuck’s Neck
The celebration of the New Year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4,000 years ago when the new year began with the first new moon after the vernal equinox, which we know today to be the first day of spring. At that time it was thought that the planting of new crops was a logical time to start a new year.
Free horseback riding, kayaking, ice skating, swimming lessons, African dance classes and tennis lessons. That would sound good to a lot of people on the Island, but it’s being offered to girls 11 to 14 years old.
The program is called ABLE — Adolescent Balanced Living Experience — and it is part of the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard. It started last fall and attendance has been growing with each session.
Amid compliments and congratulations, the Martha's Vineyard Commission on Thursday unanimously approved the 35,000-square-foot YMCA building to be built across from the regional high school on Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road following a whirlwind session of deliberations that wrapped up in under ninety minutes.