It’s been an on-again, off-again summer for amplified music on the Oak Bluffs harbor and this weekend the bars on the water will go quiet after selectmen voted to reverse their music policy on Tuesday. Again.

Tisbury selectmen have given the latest site superintendent of the town’s new emergency service building two weeks to show he can rescue the trouble-plagued project or follow his two predecessors out the door.

The board’s decision, taken reluctantly on Tuesday night, was taken despite advice from the town’s project supervisor, recommended against the appointment of Dennis Mason as the permanent site superintendant.

The morning after fellow campers and I arrived at Camp Jabberwocky, we went with our fun-loving counselors to music class in the camp’s studio. We sang Rocket Man by Elton John. I must admit our singing was very rusty, but as the month progresses it will vastly improve.

Rocket Man will be one of the songs for this year’s play — Jabberwocky Presents The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — which will be written and directed by my counselor for the summer, Michael Leon.

Slamming It Down Streetball Style

The gameball is for kids at the annual streetball classic held in Niantic Park in Oak Bluffs on Saturday, July 2. But that doesn’t mean the stands won’t be packed with basketball fans of all ages and, even more importantly, skills.

Dr. J. has attended. More recently Ray Allen checked out the scene. It’s anyone’s guess who will stop by this year but no matter, really, because the real stars will be on the court.

Renowned storyteller Susan Klein will tell a selection of her beloved Island-based stories at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s Performing Arts Center on Saturday, July 9 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. as a benefit for Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard.

Sharks in Tune

This weekend it’s not just about baseball for the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks. Then again, every Sharks game brings with it far more than mere sport. Between innings trivia contests, frozen shirt races (you have to see it to believe it), bouncy house, great food, access to friendly players and a chance to kick back while the kids run free and wild, well, semiwild; each game is a true community event.

And on Sunday and Monday they are kicking it another notch.

Parade and Fireworks

Get your boom-boom on this July 4 in Edgartown. The annual fireworks display begins at sundown by the Edgartown harbor.

“Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too, great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration.

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.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens....Whether you sang the song in high school chorus, learned Do Re Mi from Julie Andrews or were introduced to the musical via a Gwen Stefani remix, the Sound of Music is fixed in the collective memory.