When the Vineyard Haven Band plays in Ocean Park, the musicians hope no one arrives late and that nature does not call during the performance - because once the trapdoor goes down in the bandstand, there is no way in or out.
Chilmark town beaches Lucy Vincent and Squibnocket remain closed to swimming after droves of Portuguese man-of-war began washing up on the southern shore of the Island Monday, stinging five swimmers within minutes at Lucy Vincent. Two of the swimmers were hospitalized and released for wounds from the jellyfish-like creatures.
Public school came to a screeching halt last week - tests and final projects one day, sweet freedom the next. But at least 16 Island youths will merely slow their studies, instead of stopping altogether. Some may not even acknowledge the two-and-half-month academic bump in the road called summer vacation.
Starting soon, Cronig's markets will offer an eco-friendly bagging alternative at the check-out counter: polypropylene shopping bags.
They have won prestigious awards in art, journalism and sports and have played a stronger role in student government than any class before them, taking the first strides against racial tension in the school.
When the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School class of 2006 graduates on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. under the shelter of the Tabernacle on the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs, 204 young men and women will leave their school a better place than when they first arrived.
Wearing flower garlands instead of caps and gowns, two girls and three boys were graduated from the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School on Saturday under a tent sheltering friends, family, teachers, administrators and alumni from the overcast sky and smell of rain that threatened a downpour - but held off for the length of the ceremony.
