Correction

A story in the June 7 Gazette about the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School graduation incorrectly named a scholarship awarded to senior Hannah Vanderlaske. It is the Lumina Darrell scholarship. The Gazette regrets the error.

Windemere Raises $17,600

For Recreational Programs

A 32-year-old Holyoke man was charged with drunk driving and other motor vehicle violations after the Ford F-350 pickup truck he was driving flipped over on Seaview avenue in Oak Bluffs on Saturday night, sending six people to the hospital.

It was practically a feeding frenzy at the regional high school this weekend when the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks defeated the Seacoast Mavericks in their season opener on Friday and again in a rain-soaked game on Saturday. Red Sox Hall of Famer Bob (The Steamer) Stanley threw out the first pitch on Friday night after a small ceremony honoring those who had been instrumental in welcoming the Sharks to the Island, including Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss and high school principal Stephen Nixon,

Considering the chilly spring, some might have made dour forecasts for the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market season opener, but they would have underestimated the resilience and enthusiasm of both this Island’s growers, bakers and artisans, and the community that supports them.

Saturday dawned grey, but the rain held off for the morning, allowing vendors and visitors alike to buy, eat and socialize at the first meeting of this annual summerlong institution.

The banner of the king of Scots depicts a lion rampant, red on a gold background. In heraldic terms, that lion represents bravery, valor, strength and royalty.

But as it has fluttered on a pole outside the Scottish Bakehouse on State Road in Vineyard Haven over the past week or so, it has represented something else: frustration with town bureaucracy.

It flies there because bakehouse owner Daniele Dominick, has been told she is not allowed to fly the red, white and blue flag which used to be there, and carried the single-word message: “Open.”

And then there were eight.

Eight tennis teams left playing in the MIAA Team Tournament as the section finals got underway last Friday afternoon. Eight teams, the best in the state, fighting to extend their season at least a few more days — maybe even an extra week if they made it all the way to the state final.

The band played the Pirates of the Caribbean theme as the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School class of 2011 milled about the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, ready to line up for their final procession as high school kids. In the Tabernacle, it was standing room only with hundreds of friends, family, teachers and neighbors gathered to watch the graduation ceremonies. Overhead the skies threatened rain, but the event stayed dry except for the occasional shower of tears.

The Vineyard has changed a lot since 1975. The landscape, the people and the place have all changed.

But if there is one constant in a sea of change for the past 36 years, surely it is William Wilcox. He was the face of the county extension service for so many years people stopped counting, there at the ready to help Vineyard farmers with their crops, their soil and their pests. And for many more years he has been the water quality resource planner for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

The skies threatened rain, but the event stayed dry except for the occasional shower of tears. It was standing room only at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs Sunday afternoon as hundreds of friends, family, teachers and neighbors gathered to watch the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Class of 2011 graduate. The graduates milled about with friends and family before lining up for their procession, the boys in their purple gowns on the right, the girls in their white gowns on the left.