With its strong history of winning records and qualifying for the state tournament nearly every year, the boys’ tennis team is a perenniel standout.

And this year the team under longtime coach Ned Fennessey is having perhaps its strongest season ever, winning the league title in their first year in the Eastern Athletic Conference with a remarkable record of 12-2 overall and a perfect 7-0 in their league.

It’s a Boy: Alpaca Farm Birthday Challenge

Masters for Father Nagle

Rev. Michael R. Nagle, pastor of Good Shepherd Catholic parish on Martha’s Vineyard, has earned a master of arts in pastoral studies in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd degree at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis.

Completes Art Thesis

Grier Filley of Millbrook, N.Y., and Chappaquiddick, a senior studio art major at Skidmore College in Saratoga, N.Y., will show her senior thesis in an exhibit of her peers at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore from May 14 to May 22. An opening reception will be held on May 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. The public is welcome.

A thin crescent moon will appear low in the west-northwestern sky tomorrow night, right under the bright planet Venus. The two are a sight, a short time after sunset. Both are in the zodiacal constellation Taurus.

By MEGAN DOOLEY

Vineyarders will get a taste of the golden state this weekend at the first annual Martha’s Vineyard California Wine Affair, a two-day event that begins tonight at Atria.

“This is a wine-centered community gathering,” said Kaitlin Lynch, public relations coordinator for the event.

They say bad things come in threes. In the fall of 2008, Rosie Roberts and her sister were both diagnosed with cancer. Their elderly mother was ailing and near death. For Ms. Roberts’s family, three bad things seemed like plenty to deal with at once. But the bad news kept coming.

Ms. Roberts was notified shortly after her first lumpectomy that the procedure had failed. Two hours later, her mother died. With her family in mourning, her sister still in treatment, and Ms. Roberts preparing herself for another surgery, what she really needed was support.

A Story That Changes Lives

By Jessie Chandler>

Under threatening skies and a stiff, southerly wind, over 100 hardy souls convened at Menemsha Beach to celebrate the life of Dan Aronie, who died early this year at the age of 38 after a lifelong struggle with diabetes and multiple sclerosis. The gathering included a formal Jewish eulogy followed by short speeches filled with anecdotes about Dan’s life, some joyful, others tearful. Dan’s parents, Joel and Nancy, and his brother Josh were present, along with many of Dan’s caregivers and members of the Aronie extended family of friends.

Lloyd Raleigh is bent double , trying to negotiate his way through a dense thicket of catbriar in the moist wetands of Brookside Farm. As thorns entangle his jacket, a soup of leaf mold and sphagnum moss sucks his boots deeper into the mud.

“I kind of like this spot,” he says. “It tells us a lot about the land.”