The recent letter from W.R. Deeble prompts me to respond to the allegations that Republicans, Fox News, talk show hosts and we poor, misguided fools that did not vote for Barack Hussein Obama “have launched a campaign to nullify” the 2012 election results.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of May, 1928: George W. Purdy, one-armed keeper of East Chop Lighthouse, has previously astonished his acquaintances with his engineering feat, but his latest one is the more remarkable of any yet performed.
Supplies for the light are landed on the beach at the foot of the high bluff on which the lighthouse is situated. All along the shore of the government reservation is a heavy wall of loose boulders, weighing from one to several hundred pounds each.

For viewers this summer, gavel-to-gavel coverage of Island government meetings, high school sports and an eclectic array of original programming may appear unchanged on Martha’s Vineyard Television.

But for the people behind the cameras and the scenes at the Island’s only public access television station, huge change is in the offing as the station prepares to move to a new facility that is nearly complete off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road.

When the high school football team took to the field last year for the annual Island Cup game, there were no Vineyard cheerleaders. Nantucket had brought their squad, and the Vineyard junior high team performed their routine at the earlier middle school game, but the purple and white had no sideline representation.

That will change this fall as junior high coaches Sue Costello and Shannon Capra take their talents to the high school level to rebuild the program, which was absent last season after years of shrinking attendance. Mrs.

Memorial Day Weekend brings more than the signal of summer. It is also the weekend of the annual Friends of Family Planning Art Show Benefit which helps support the Family Planning Clinic of Martha’s Vineyard.

Island artists donate from 40 to 100 per cent of the proceeds from the sale of their work to benefit the cause. Appetizers and desserts are donated by Island restaurants, caterers and chefs.

The opening gala benefit is from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury. Music will be provided by Jeremy Berlin.

In 2008 the company Airbnb started in San Francisco. The idea was basic but hardly simple. Create a conduit for travelers to vacation all across the globe in local homes and apartments. The internet site matches those with places to rent for a day, week, month, any amount of time, really, and those looking to travel. The company now has host sites in more than 40,000 cities and 192 countries.

After 23 seasons with the Vineyarders, boys’ varsity tennis head coach Ned Fennessy is stepping down. Coach Fennessy’s squad was a perfect 23-0 last season, and won the Division 3 state championships. Their win streak came to an end last week against Barnstable, a Division 1 team, but they quickly picked up three more wins.

On a recent Tuesday morning culinary students at the Martha’s Vineyard High School were preparing lunch for some of the teachers. They baked foccacia bread and made sandwiches with vegetables, whipped ricotta cheese and roast chicken, and Italian sausage and mozzarella cheese.

“The food is extraordinary,” said Cindy West, a Spanish teacher who attended the lunch. But cooking wasn’t the only item on the educational menu

In an effort to spread the success of raising mussels offshore, local Vineyard commercial fishermen and shellfishermen are being invited to a special workshop on mussel farming on Friday, May 17 in Rhode Island.

The Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha’s Vineyard is accepting nominations for the 2013 Creative Living Award. Established in 1983 through the Ruth J. Bogan and Ruth Redding Fund, the award recognizes members of the Vineyard community who embody Ruth Bogan’s spirit and love for the Island. Ms. Bogan was a nurse by training but was also a self-taught painter, sculptor and photographer.