John P. Hansen and Sandra Jones-Hansen purchased 344 and 346 Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road for $285,000 on May 24.

John A. Eller and Lisa M. Eller purchased 43C Dark Woods Road for $803,000 on May 20.

At a meeting Tuesday Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss said he would like to avoid appointing an interim principal to replace outgoing principal Michael Halt, and hire a permanent principal in time for the start of the school year next September.

Othman Awqatty of Edgartown graduated from Curry College in Milton, Mass., on Sunday, May 19. 

Connor Chisholm of Edgartown graduated from Boston College High School on Sunday, May 19.

Loren Foster Gibson of West Tisbury graduated magna cum laude from University of Southern California. She received a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering. Loren will be working for Boeing in Charleston, S.C. where she interned last summer.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $170,584 for the business week ending on Friday, May 24, 2013.

The milk and cheesemaking operation has been shut down and the farm stand closed at the Grey Barn farm and dairy in Chilmark following a fire in the creamery late Friday. Farm owners Molly and Eric Glasgow said the active milking herd of 22 Dutch Belted Galloway cows will be sent off-Island while the creamery is rebuilt at the organic farm off South Road.

Veterans, active service people and ordinary citizens gathered in Vineyard Haven on Memorial Day to remember those who dedicated their lives to a sacred purpose.

Wesley R. Winston, an army veteran of the Viet Nam era, read the names of fallen comrades. Four families received gold stars, a tradition that dates back to the First World War when mothers of fallen soldiers began calling themselves gold star mothers.

Hot dogs sizzled, children laughed, and a mandolin played as rowboats floated in a calm pond and a small pony ambled down a wooded trail.

"There could be sharks!" Landon Medeiros of Vineyard Haven said as he waited his turn to row around the pond of Waterworks Park in Tisbury. And then, as his friends laughed, he added, "There's not sharks. I'm kidding."

It's all part of the annual Tisbury town picnic, a tradition so longstanding even the sun graced the park with its presence.