The Hillside Village community center is the last place one would think of going to sit in a dentist chair. But recently, the community center, a living room and kitchen were turned over to Dr. Ghassan Khoury, 43, a dentist from Lexington with a growing following. To his friends, to his patients, he is Dr. Gus.

Sportsmanship Award

Tim McHugh received the F. Paul Bogan Memorial Sportsmanship Award from the Northeast-10 tennis conference. He is a junior at Merrimack College. The men’s tennis team qualified for the NCAA Division 2 tournament to be played at Queens College May 6 and 7. He was also selected to the All-Conference team.

Tim is the son of Connie and Leo McHugh of Edgartown and is a 2007 Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School graduate.

With its strong history of winning records and qualifying for the state tournament nearly every year, the boys’ tennis team is a perenniel standout.

And this year the team under longtime coach Ned Fennessey is having perhaps its strongest season ever, winning the league title in their first year in the Eastern Athletic Conference with a remarkable record of 12-2 overall and a perfect 7-0 in their league.

It’s a Boy: Alpaca Farm Birthday Challenge

Masters for Father Nagle

Rev. Michael R. Nagle, pastor of Good Shepherd Catholic parish on Martha’s Vineyard, has earned a master of arts in pastoral studies in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd degree at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis.

Completes Art Thesis

Grier Filley of Millbrook, N.Y., and Chappaquiddick, a senior studio art major at Skidmore College in Saratoga, N.Y., will show her senior thesis in an exhibit of her peers at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore from May 14 to May 22. An opening reception will be held on May 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. The public is welcome.

A thin crescent moon will appear low in the west-northwestern sky tomorrow night, right under the bright planet Venus. The two are a sight, a short time after sunset. Both are in the zodiacal constellation Taurus.

By MEGAN DOOLEY

Vineyarders will get a taste of the golden state this weekend at the first annual Martha’s Vineyard California Wine Affair, a two-day event that begins tonight at Atria.

“This is a wine-centered community gathering,” said Kaitlin Lynch, public relations coordinator for the event.

They say bad things come in threes. In the fall of 2008, Rosie Roberts and her sister were both diagnosed with cancer. Their elderly mother was ailing and near death. For Ms. Roberts’s family, three bad things seemed like plenty to deal with at once. But the bad news kept coming.

Ms. Roberts was notified shortly after her first lumpectomy that the procedure had failed. Two hours later, her mother died. With her family in mourning, her sister still in treatment, and Ms. Roberts preparing herself for another surgery, what she really needed was support.

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