By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG
In a move aimed at curbing the unlawful use of the Greenlands by dirt bikers, the West Tisbury conservation commission voted Tuesday night to put up five new warning signs at entrances to the preserved area.
The vote comes in response to several complaints received by the environmental police and a group called the Friends of the Greenlands.
There are always the telltale signs this time of year: tourists crowding sun-drenched streets, flags flying proudly above every doorway and red, white, and blue everywhere you look. The Fourth of July is nearly here, and with it comes the official start of summer on the Vineyard.
Drumbeats will echo out across the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs on Saturday evening, and anyone drawn by them towards the open-air Tabernacle will see flashes of color in constant motion and hear the voices of the Watoto Children’s Choir, a singing group from Uganda.
Uganda is currently home to more than a million orphans who have lost their parents to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. About 20 of them will be performing on the Vineyard at the end of the choir’s six-month tour of the United States.
Carole Simpson became a broadcast news reporter to make a difference.
In her work — she was the first black woman to work in the Washington, D.C., bureau for NBC and later moved to ABC as a weekend anchor — Ms. Simpson sought to use the power of her position not just to report the facts, but to make Americans see the injustices that plagued both their country and the world.
As Magic Carpet neared Cape Pogue, a thick fog crossed over the bow. All of a sudden, the boat was in the center of a circle of mist, though somehow the sun made brilliant that oceanic cloud.
Few in the audience were unmoved at the end of Assertions, a song, dance and theatre performance about bullying.
The Thursday night performance took place at the Performing Arts Center at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, and was a collaborative effort among Island schools — both the regional high school and the charter school — IMP Improv for kids, YMCA dancers, Joanne Cassidy and other musical guests.
