Hellen Pereira and Vinicios Dias, of Edgartown, announce the birth of a son, Brayon Pereira Dias, born on Oct. 25.

Rafaela and Thiago deSouza, of Vineyard Haven, announce the birth of twin boys, born on Oct. 24 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Halloween 2021 will see the return of some beloved Island traditions.

The First Congregational Church of West Tisbury will host a concert called Belonging, Journeying and Loving on Sunday, Oct. 31.

Kevin James McCabe proposed to Lily Angela Oksanen in Aquinnah.

The memories come flood ing back during the imposed isolation of the pandemic.

Hard seats bump, the truck slews
skids on the sand of the thin-armed
cape. The tower, isolated at the cape’s elbow,|
was lifted by helicopter and set again
away from the surf. Visitors can climb
spiral stairs, then a steep ladder to the lens
where they can wonder how a flame,
small as an eye, could guide wooden
schooners safely though Muskeget Channel.

Spirited From the Oct. 25, 1968 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

The real estate developer Xerxes Agassi has proposed a plan for the Edu Comp property in downtown Vineyard Haven.

The individual who burst, ranting and raging, into the barnyard of the Grey Barn Farm while a cow was in the process of delivering a calf, owes Grey Barn employees and customers letters of apology.