Emma Kilbride
Hundreds of people gathered Friday evening at the Black Dog Wharf to celebrate the life and memory of Robert Douglas, the Vineyard schooner captain and founder of the Black Dog who died in April at 93.
Passersby at the intersection of County Road and Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road in Oak Bluffs have been noticing a new addition to the landscape: a 113-foot-long, fourt-foot-tall stone wall emblazoned with the word “Ogkeshkuppe.”
Nathaniel Scott worked for USAID for 16 years before it was largely taken over by the U.S. State Department earlier this year and had much of its programming shut down.
Harbor Homes will operate its winter emergency homeless shelter in a new location this season after the Oak Bluffs zoning board of appeals approved a temporary conversion of its women’s group home for a new use.
Local conceptual artist Paul Lazes’s journey began at the age of seven, with a hand-drawn portrait of his father. His new retrospective exhibit will open on Sept. 20 at the Turpentine Gallery in West Tisbury.
After being postponed back in May, the organizers of Brazil Fest decided this week that the new tentative date of Oct. 12 wasn't feasible due to concerns about Immigration officials returning to the Vineyard.