Gonzalo Corts

Gonzalo Corts of Vineyard Haven has graduated with high honors from Cape Cod Community College. Mr. Corts also was named a member of Phi Theta Kappa international honor society.

A cookout for a den of Vineyard Cub Scouts and their parents last Thursday night had an exciting surprise ending when two young scouts discovered an old treasure box deep in the woods.

The rusted World War II-era metal box contained a cache of gold and jewelry, knives and an old revolver. The box and its contents were turned over to the Oak Bluffs police.

Greenlands is a 360-acre environmental gem located in the heart of our Island. Greenlands was purchased by the town of West Tisbury to protect the crown of our Island’s sensitive sole-source aquifer as a future source of public water supply. Since its creation in 1982, parts of this critically important Island asset have been systematically transformed into an elaborate motorcross bike track.

It doesn’t get any better — you just get used to it.”

Hearing this a couple of months after the death of my wife, Ella Tulin, was like a kick in the stomach, but over the succeeding year there were many occasions when this phrase was the only solid anchor in an emotional turmoil.

Broadcast from Oak Bluffs

Listen to the voters in Oak Bluffs; their collective voice is loud and clear. At the annual town election in April they swept two longtime incumbent selectmen out of office and voted in two newcomers. At a special town election last week they broadcast a forceful message about their desire to curb spending and balance the town budget in real time, rejecting by a wide margin two questions that would have allowed the town to exceed the state law that caps annual property tax increases at two and a half per cent.

Handing Off for Life

There will be burgers, pancakes and silly stunts — people wearing crazy hats, walking backwards, eating s’mores and collecting playing cards around the track of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, hoping for a winning hand by lap five. It is the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, and the poker run lap is apt, for every day involves high stakes when you find yourself in the casino of cancer.

The other day, on a wet and chilly morning, I suggested to my daughter Pickle, recently turned three, that she wear a coat for going outside. Giving my children suggestions about what clothes to wear has been an ongoing battle for me ever since I became a parent. That at age eight I chose to wear the same green T-shirt every day for an entire summer mocks me from my past.

Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal Stephen Nixon has announced the honor roll for the third quarter of the 2010-2011 academic year.

Grade 12 high honors go to: Celeste Ewing, Michaella Gaines, Sarah Johnson, Collette Jordan, Haley Krauss, Jill McHugh, Amelia Pennington and Kira Shipway.

Grade 11 high honors go to: Clara Corjulo, Riley Donegan, Christine Janak, Celia Mercier, William Stewart, Liam Wallace and Kevin Walsh.

What follows is the list of awards given to Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School students at the annual Honors Night ceremony, held last night at the high school performing arts center. Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

Departmental Awards: Faculty

Art: excellence in drawing and painting: Mary-Louise Howell and Kira Shipway; excellence in photography and graphics: Courtney Minnehan; excellence in 3D design and architecture: Frederick Hehre; excellence in crafts and sculpture: Colby Gouldrup.

As the Family Planning clinic here faces the threat of possible closure due to severe state budget cuts, the Vineyard community turned out in large numbers for the annual Friends of Family Planning Art Show this past weekend.