Gail LaChapelle purchased 11 Eighth Street North in Edgartown for $405,000 on June 3.

The stage at Flatbread was packed with instruments on Monday night and the dance floor filled with fans standing shoulder to shoulder. Deer Tick, an alternative rock band from Providence, R.I., was back in town after a two-year hiatus.

The band jumped feet-first into their set. Their style is shamelessly and classically authentic. The vintage whirl of a Hammond B-3 organ blended beautifully with a pair of rancorous guitars.

The boys of summer are back in action tonight as the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks play their first home game of the season, taking on the Brockton Rox. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the regional high school field.

The Sharks kick off their third season on the Vineyard in style, with the addition of stadium seats behind home plate and, for the first time, lights at the Field of Dreams. Nearly all of the team’s home games, which continue through August, will be played at night.

The boys’ varsity tennis team’s state semifinal match against Weston was postponed due to rain Monday. The match will be held Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Newton North High School.

The Vineyard boys clinched the division three south section title in a game Saturday against Westport.

The Weston contest is a rematch for the two teams, who met in the semifinals last year.

For the second straight year, the Vineyard boys tennis team will go to the division three state tournament.

The boys swept Westport 5-0 in Barnstable Saturday.

“When I say Barrington, you say Levy!” shouted a man onstage wearing gold-framed sunglasses. “Barrington!”

“Levy!” the crowd roared back at him.

The chant continued, ultimately dissolving into raucous cheering as Barrington Levy, reggae revolutionary, took the stage at Dreamland in Oak Bluffs on Friday night.

Beverly J. Skaar purchased 81 Bayview Avenue in Edgartown for $525,000 on June 6.

Carol Carrick, the well-known children’s author whose books have had a cherished place on family bookshelves and in children’s rooms in public libraries for more than 40 years, died last week in her West Tisbury home. She was 78.

One of Edgartown’s properties with an interesting story has changed hands recently. What we know as the Vose property at Tower Hill started out in the 1890s as Quiet Corner. The house and its outbuildings, including the iconic boathouse, were built by Sol Smith Russell, a vaudeville star who became very successful as an actor and singer, but who made even more money as a real estate entrepreneur in Minneapolis. These buildings were designed by Frank Alden, an Edgartown native who did most of his work in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr.

Connected. Privileged. Honored. Thankful. Full.

Those were a few of the words the Chilmark School fourth and fifth grade class used in their class blessing at the school’s community lunch Friday afternoon. The lunch was the last of the school year in a series of gatherings organized by Island Grown Schools and volunteers.

With the opening notes of Edward Elgar’s traditional processional music Pomp and Circumstance, two long columns of graduates made their way down the aisle of the Tabernacle Sunday afternoon. The audience turned and erupted in applause for the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s Class of 2013, 184 strong.

Students chatted excitedly as they took their seats, practicing the proper method for receiving diplomas (right hand to shake, left hand to take) and looking back at the rest of the audience, which spilled out of the open-air Tabernacle onto the lawn.