Private Silvia

Army Pvt. Timothy M. Silvia has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.

During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises in drill and ceremonies, Army history, core values and traditions, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, rifle marksmanship, weapons use, map reading and land navigation, foot marches, armed and unarmed combat, and field maneuvers and tactics.

Miss Hall’s School announces that senior Maili Scott, of Vineyard Haven, received the Margaret Witherspoon Award, the school’s highest honor, and the Sylvia “Rusty” Shethar Everdell ’38 Prize during the school’s 112th Commencement ceremonies.

Maili, the daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Scott, was also among the students who shared the 2010 Christine Fuller Holland ’33 Service Prize, and she was named a recipient of the Meus Honor Stat key, one of the School’s highest awards for leadership and citizenship.

The Tisbury School held its annual awards ceremony for the fifth through eighth grades on June 17. Academic achievement awards were presented in all subjects. The following special awards were also given: Jeffrey T. Goodale memorial award, Lachlan Cormie, grade five; Dorothy Larkosh Roberts award, Matthew Barton, grade six; Rose Anthony award, Karl Rasmus Sayre, grade seven; Art Buchwald Philanthropy award, Elizabeth Smith, grade seven; and the following eighth grade awards: Kerry Alley Humanitarian award, Gabrielle Silva; Eugene W.

Several Martha’s Vineyard students earned awards at Falmouth Academy’s annual Recognition Day ceremonies, June 12. The ceremonies honored character, hard work, imagination, personal and academic growth, and community achievements.

Lagan Trieschmann, class of 2010, the son of Beth and Stephen Trieschmann of Vineyard Haven, earned the all-school Bruce E. Buxton Award for Imagination as well as an award for excellence and leadership in martial arts. He will attend Princeton University this fall.

Graduates

Scott Cleary of Edgartown graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon, a coeducational boarding school for students in grades 9 to 12, during the school’s commencement exercises on May 23.

The Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones will be celebrant at Trinity Episcopal Church for the next two Sundays, July 18 and 25. Mr. Bozzuti-Jones is the priest for pastoral care and nurture at Trinity, Wall Street in New York city, where he has served since 2007. He has degrees from Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge and the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Calif. A native of Jamaica, Mr. Bozzuti-Jones has served as a pastoral assistant in Manaus, Amazonas and Dangriga, Belize.

This is only their second summer, but already those distinctive yellow rickshaws of Vineyard Pedicab have become a staple of downtown Oak Bluffs.

During the recent heat wave, while most people were at the beach or in air-conditioned rooms, the young men and women of the pedicab company could be found pedaling passengers all around town. They perform a valuable service, getting people to their destinations while giving them informal tours of the downtown, always doing it with a smile.

The meeting room of the Chilmark Public Library was filled to capacity Wednesday night, with guests spilling over into the adjacent children’s area and front hallway of the building, as Vineyarders gathered to hear readings from Paris Press’s latest collection, Sisters: An Anthology.

By IVY ASHE

The meeting room of the Chilmark Public Library was filled to capacity Wednesday night, with guests spilling over into the adjacent children’s area and front hallway of the building, as Vineyarders gathered to hear readings from Paris Press’s latest collection, Sisters: An Anthology.

What follows is an edited selection of reader comments from the Gazette Web site on the Menemsha fire.

The indignity of fire — it struck on a sunny , hot and cheery summer Monday at about 3 p.m. The first warnings were muffled explosions and the sound of running feet on the sandy pavement in front of the shop. I was soon closed up and had joined the runners. We, typical humans, were running toward the fire, not away from it. Fire trucks from all over the Island were arriving one after the other, all so carefully driven and parked in the available spaces in that crowded end of Menemsha near the Home Port.