Ysidore R. Perez and Rhonda T. Brown purchased 57 Clevelandtown Road from Coastal Estates LLC and Command Properties LLC for $1,840,000 on June 23.

The shelter has a new resident, an orange female cat who was thrown out of a car! She is a beautiful girl who is multidactyl.

The "Farmhouse", located in North Tisbury is currently being run as a B&B. This charming  home was originally built in 1810 and tastefully renovated in 1982. There are 6 bedrooms, 4+ baths, a country kitchen with large brick fireplace, beautiful wood floors,  many custom built-ins and nice details throughout. Nicely landscaped with mature gardens and plantings, a detached workshop/garage and plenty of parking. $749,000

On Sunday, July 5, former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick will lead the service at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs.

Behind the rockets’ red glare, there is plenty to see Saturday night overhead.

Anna Mae Cecilio, a Vineyard native and former career nurse on the Island, now living on the Cape, was recognized recently by the Cape Cod Senior residences for her exemplary life and citizenship.

Thursday, July 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the West Tisbury Library, Island clergy host a forum called The Crisis of Homelessness and the Call to Care.

Philip Mangano will be guest speaker at Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven on Sunday, July 5.

It happened while we weren’t looking. Sometime after Memorial Day beautiful, sexy Summer sneaked up on gnarly old Winter and tackled him. Enough! Summer said. It’s my turn now.

By the time the third victim of the Mother Emanuel Church massacre was laid to rest, I was back from two visits to Charleston and on Martha’s Vineyard, the thankfully welcoming place where so many of my friends have weighed in, expressing the pain felt around the world about what happened there.