The Soldiers’ Memorial Fountain at Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs was rededicated Friday afternoon in ceremonies celebrating the completion of an ambitious two-year restoration project.
Bagpipes, played by Tony Peak, began in the distance and came nearer as the Massachusetts 54th re-enactors and members of American Legion Post 257 marched to the foot of the memorial.
Clouds began to roll in, blocking the splendor of the sun but not the glory of the celebration.
There are moments that can only be captured at an agricultural fair — children toting balls of cotton candy larger than their heads, piglets resting peacefully across the midsection of a somnolent mother pig, and fathers being tugged to the Ferris wheel for the fifth time in an evening.
Agricultural Fair Harvests Best of Vineyard
Blue Ribbon Applause Comes from Crowds At Four-Day Event
By MANDY LOCKE
There are moments that can only be captured at an agricultural fair — children toting balls of cotton candy larger than their heads, piglets resting peacefully across the midsection of a somnolent mother pig, and fathers being tugged to the Ferris wheel for the fifth time in an evening.
Boat Line Governors Hear Cold Truth About Money Squeeze in Years Ahead
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
NANTUCKET — After seven months of chasing a futuristic service model amid visions of multi-million-dollar high-speed ferries, Steamship Authority governors learned the cold truth yesterday: If replacing the ferry Islander is a top priority, there will be no more money for large capital projects in the next six years.
By their very nature, fireworks shows have exclamation points after their name, but tonight’s event in Oak Bluffs already has a few question marks.\
Operators of rented mopeds suffered two serious accidents this week on the same stretch of Seaview avenue near Lola's Restaurant in Oak Bluffs. In both accidents, moped operators lost control, crossed the center line and crashed into oncoming auto traffic.
There's money to be made in moped rentals on Martha's Vineyard, but just a handful of people are counting the cash - seven shop owners and four landlords, to be exact.
Camp Ground Basks in Glow Of Candlelight
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
A thousand happy voices sang Home on the Range and America the Beautiful, and then the lights came on. It happened this year, as it has of old, at the 132nd annual Grand Illumination on the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs.
Even the sun decided to make an appearance yesterday morning for the opening of the 140th Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair.
Fifteen minutes before the fair officially opened, carloads of big and little kids lined Panhandle Road, anxious to be the first riders on the 18 carnival rides.
With only two months to go before the Oak Bluffs wastewater plant switches into gear, the town has no one to man the operation.
