The eve of the start of the 84th annual Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta
is a bit awkward for club manager William J. (Bill) Roman, 49.

For 21 years of working at the club, Mr. Roman has stayed low and
focused his attention on making sure the affairs of the club go without
a hitch. In a typically understated manner, he has hidden himself and
sought to meet the needs of the club, its 875 members and their friends.

Drs. Bela Matyas and Sam Donta agree on at least two points when it
comes to dealing with Lyme disease. One, there is not nearly enough
money spent on research. Two, the medical response to the disease as a
result is as much art as science.

When Island blues guitarist and singer Maynard Silva, 56, developed
cancer two years ago, his son Milo, 20, returned from college to care
for him, and then, as he recovered, to sing with him when Maynard
couldn't.

Interviews by Mike Seccombe

Maynard: "He had to take care of me while I was sick. And it
was a tough thing for an 18 year-old kid to be dealing with a guy who
was in the kind of shape I was at the time.

Several Oak Bluffs businesses were shut down and at least one person
was reportedly sent to the hospital Sunday morning following a volatile
oil delivery mishap near the Sand Bar and Grill that sent a powerful
geyser of diesel fuel into the air which rained down on rooftops as far
as two blocks away.

It was a claustrophobe's nightmare and a hungry man's
dream at the 37th annual Tisbury Street Fair on Sunday night.

Some quick action and bold navigating by a charter fishing captain
on Friday likely saved the life of a New Jersey man who fell from his
boat into rough seas off Wasque Point on Chappaquiddick. The man was not
wearing a life jacket at the time and had to tread water for close to a
30 minutes before being rescued, authorities said yesterday.

Betsy Sheerr Leads Hebrew Center Institute

By MIKE SECCOMBE

The summer speaker series put on by the Martha's Vineyard
Hebrew Center, explained Betsy Sheerr, is not a Jewish thing, although
she explained its motivation - and her own - in distinctly
Jewish terms.

"There is in Judaism an important concept of repairing the
world: Tikun olam," said the new chairman of the center's
Summer Institute.

Beverly Sills, coloratura soprano, devoted supporter of the arts and
longtime Vineyard seasonal resident, died on Monday at her home in New
York city of lung cancer. Ms. Sills, who was 78, was the wife of the
late Peter B. Greenough, a retired financial writer for the Boston
Globe, who died last September.

Energy Zone Raises Doubts

Feasibility of Proposed Area Close to Tuckernuck May Be Years Away;
Need Grows for Clean Energy

By IAN FEIN

Selectmen across the Island this spring hailed a proposal to
designate an area southeast of Chappaquiddick as a renewable energy
zone, where they would promote offshore projects to supply the Vineyard
and Nantucket with clean electric power.