When Island blues guitarist and singer Maynard Silva, 56, developed cancer two years ago, his son Milo, 20, returned from college to care for him, and then, as he recovered, to sing with him when Maynard couldn't.
Interviews by Mike Seccombe
Maynard: "He had to take care of me while I was sick. And it was a tough thing for an 18 year-old kid to be dealing with a guy who was in the kind of shape I was at the time.
Betsy Sheerr Leads Hebrew Center Institute
By MIKE SECCOMBE
The summer speaker series put on by the Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center, explained Betsy Sheerr, is not a Jewish thing, although she explained its motivation - and her own - in distinctly Jewish terms.
"There is in Judaism an important concept of repairing the world: Tikun olam," said the new chairman of the center's Summer Institute.
For the second time in less than a month, Sengekontacket Pond has been closed to shellfishing, and will remain closed indefinitely while fisheries experts consider what to do about bacterial contamination.
Land Bank Revenues Sharply Down
By MIKE SECCOMBE
Martha's Vineyard Land Bank revenues fell some 14 per cent in the fiscal year just ended, as a result of the downturn in the Island real estate market.
As it closed the books on the fiscal year yesterday, the land bank reported revenues for the year ending June 30 were just under $11.1 million, compared with a little over $12.9 million the year before.
Almost 40 years ago, after a careful assessment of the state of the Viet Nam war, Walter Cronkite delivered an editorial on CBS, saying it was time for a negotiated withdrawal.
President Lyndon Johnson, in response, was famously quoted as saying: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." Five weeks later, the President announced he would not run for reelection.
Votes on School Budget Refuse District Purchase Come Before Two Towns
By MIKE SECCOMBE and JULIA RAPPOPORT
The approval of extra money to fund the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School budget will be recommended to Edgartown and Chilmark voters alike, but the prospects for the approval of more than $1 million to buy land to expand the regional refuse transfer station are looking less certain for at least one of this week's special town meetings.