Leads Summer Institute

Geraldine (Gerri) Alpert of Edgartown and Boston became the fourth chairman of the Summer Institute at the annual meeting of the organizing committee, held August 24 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center. She will lead a board which also includes Stanley Snider, founder of the Summer Institute, and his two successors as chairman, Carole Cohen and Betsy Sheerr.

A Lexington woman is facing criminal charges after she drove her car the wrong way down a one-way street in Edgartown, leaving a trail of damage in its wake.

At 4:12 a.m. Sunday Edgartown police received a report of a gray Toyota with extensive front-end damage that had driven the wrong way down North Water street, crossed Main street and proceeded onto South Water street.

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The following letter was sent to the president, vice president and board chairman of The Trustees of Reservations, signed by 27 Chappaquiddick residents:

As the last week of August and first week of September are upon us, there is no getting around the crisp smell of soil in the air, the slight crunch under your feet as leaves begin to drop

REQuiEM FOR VALORA

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Last Monday the schooner Valora was lost after she broke from her mooring outside Vineyard Haven and went up on the breakwater. Friends often heard me say that you never really own a boat like Valora, you just take care of her for future generations. I certainly expected her to outlive me — sadly, this will not be so.

From Gazette editions of late summer, 1935:

It’s nearly that time of year. Yellow busses roll, the flashing lights warn caution. Maybe there’s a bigger message here. We’re in the Internet age and bullying has come full circle. Even while school was out this summer, Newsweek ran a piece about how to curb school bullying in Massachusetts. There was a picture of one of the bullies accused in a suicide of a high school teen in this state. She was wearing a Black Dog sweatshirt. That gave me pause to think.

Holiday Snapshots

Two trips to the beach, one family bike ride, three dinners out and roughly eighty-one holes of golf. One trip to the bookstore, one rainy day lunch. A couple of hours of pickup basketball at the Oak Bluffs School gymnasium. A game of Scrabble with an old friend (the President won). A quiet conversation with New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg around the links at the Vineyard Golf Club. A plate of fried shrimp and a cold beer overlooking the busy Oak Bluffs harbor on an August day.

Well over 200 people attended the gallery opening of The Art of the Ceramic Bowl at Featherstone this Sunday, which kicked off with a fund-raising effort that gave new meaning to a common Vineyard abbreviation. The event, which sought to raise money for the purchase of Featherstone’s new kiln, was Buy Your Own Bowl.

Clear the Net for Hospice

The sixth annual all-Island tennis championship benefiting Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard begins on Friday, Sept. 5 at 8 a.m. and continues through Sunday afternoon. On Friday evening at 5 p.m. there is an opening night cocktail party with pro exhibition matches, door prizes and a raffle.

Cost to enter the event is $75. For more information and to register visit tennismv.com.