The official opening and ribbon cutting celebration of the Oak Bluffs fishing pier will take place on Thursday, June 19, at 11 a.m.

The West Tisbury selectmen this week ordered the owner of a Husky to restrain her dog after an incident where the dog killed a chicken.

At a public hearing Wednesday, the selectmen learned that on May 4 the dog owned by Marina Sharkovitz killed a chicken owned by neighbor Angela Aronie on Otis Bassett Road. According to animal control officer Joan Jenkinson, this was the second time the year-and-a-half-old dog, Kota, had killed a chicken but it was the first time a formal complaint had been filed.

Ian MacCormack of Oak Bluffs was named to the dean's list for the spring 2014 semester at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

Michael C. Kendall, son of BeeBee Horowitz and Stuart Kendall of West Tisbury, graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., on Sunday, May 25.

Cody Coutinho of Chilmark recently earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Merrimack College in North Andover.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $75,276.50 for the business week ending on Friday, June 6, 2014.

Normally I don’t like sequels. I often find them to be inferior products. So when John Potter asked me to review On the Track of the Monmouth’s Galleon, I said yes with some dread. The book is a sequel to his autobiographical book My First Nine Lives. It continues Mr. Potter’s story from 1954 to 1958. But On the Track is a new story, and it is good.

Jan Hulka purchased 7 Wheelhouse Way in Oak Bluffs from Stanley Siede for $426,200 on June 6.

Situated on the eastern shore of Tisbury Great Pond, Middle Point faces the Atlantic barrier beach with access just a short boat ride away. The waterviews are stunning. The simple "shackteau" as it is called with weathered shingles, beadboard walls and ceilings, and windows yielding views of sand, water, sky provides the carefree atmosphere of Island life on Martha's Vineyard. A most desirable waterfront location.

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Join Terry Appenzellar and John Caldwell as they present a slide show and talk about their trip to Antarctica — just in time for summer. Shots of this scenery will cool off any warm day.

The presentation is at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, June 18, beginning at 5 p.m.