It should have been the best moment of Chris Herren’s life when he signed a contract to live out the dream of every boy who grew up playing basketball in Boston. But as Mr. Herren spoke in his thick Boston accent about what an honor it was to be a hometown kid coming back to play for the Boston Celtics, he had his mind on something besides basketball — the 800 mg of Oxycotin waiting in his drug dealer’s pocket.

Each week the folks at Cinema Circus show a series of short films on Wednesday evenings at the Chilmark Community Center. The films begin at 6 p.m. but at 5 p.m. the circus — complete with jugglers, face painters, stilt walkers, food and music — gets under way.

An advanced screening of the films was arranged. In a world with few certainties, the kid critic is the critic to trust. This week’s reviewer is Maisie Sherman.

Maximum Boost (Dir. Rolf Hellat / Switzerland / 2010 / 5 min.)

Congressional candidate Elizabeth Warren made a quick swing through Martha’s Vineyard this weekend.

Ms. Warren, a Democrat who is looking to unseat incumbent Sen. Scott Brown, was on the Island from Friday night through Saturday, campaign spokesman Matthew Cournoyer said. She attended the July meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Democrats Saturday morning in West Tisbury, and then spent some time at the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market. She also attended a few other events and fundraisers during the day, he said.

Steamship Authority governors will hold their monthly meeting on the Vineyard this morning. The meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. in the library conference room at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

The agenda for the meeting includes a monthly business summary for the public boat line, an update on the SSA website project and a discussion of 2013 ferry schedules.

Governors will review a proposed contract to overhaul the freight vessel Sankaty.

West Tisbury selectmen approved the town’s first one-day beer and wine license last Wednesday, granting permission to the Vineyard Nursing Association to serve alcohol at its annual clambake and auction, which will be held August 1 at the Field Gallery. VNA chief executive officer Bob Tonti said he expects approximately 225 people to attend the event.

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) are holding a public information meeting in New Bedford today, July 17, about proposed offshore wind energy projects in the Massachusetts-Rhode Island wind energy area.

Air quality tests will be done in the Tisbury town hall following a painting and renovation project that caused complaints among town workers about fumes inside the building.

At their meeting last week, the Tisbury selectmen voted to spend $900 on the testing. “After the painting and all the work that revolved around the process, we thought it would be helpful to have some kind of air quality testing done, to know what’s in the air, if anything at the moment,” town administrator John Bugbee told the board.

Check yourself, check the children, check the cats and dogs. And when it comes to checking for ticks, don’t forget about horses. Equestrians on the Vineyard and throughout New England are now constantly on the lookout for Lyme disease symptoms in horses.

I was moved by news of the death of Gladys Widdiss. She has long been one of my Island heroes, starting with her becoming valedictorian of her senior class at the Tisbury High School in 1932. More recently I admired her for her determination and success in her dealing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to get the Wampanoag community of the Island recognized as a tribe. “We know who we are,” she used to say. “The challenge was that we just had to convince the bureaucrats in Washington who we are.”

From a July 1, 1960 column by Joseph Chase Allen:

Looking backward, the most astonishing thing to contemplate is the realization of how brief the span of years there is between the electrified present and the primitive colonial age, a span which my personal memory cannot cover of course, yet it can visualize the dovetailing of one age into the other.