Carolyn Daniele Art Show

On Thursday, July 28, artist Carolyn Daniele is having her first solo exhibition at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. Ms. Daniele began her career as a ceramic sculptor but over the years has begun to incorporate painting and collage in her work.

Anna Edey stooped over one of her many wineberry bushes at her West Tisbury home Saturday afternoon, plucked one of the raspberry-like wild berries and popped it into her mouth.

“What a treat,” she said. “They have no shelf life, so you have to pick them right off the bush.”

A proposed Wind Energy Plan for Dukes County was released for public comment yesterday by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

The document includes two fundamental options regarding possible offshore wind energy development. One would allow development in certain areas defined by the analysis; the other would hold off on short-term development within the waters of Dukes County.

Lisa (Ben David) Scannell didn’t get five feet past the door of the Portuguese-American Club before the crowd came to her.

Welcome, Rory

Nell Coogan and Anthony Carestia of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Rory Coogan Carestia, born on July 20, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Rory weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces at birth.

All Vineyard beaches are open as of Friday afternoon.

In Chilmark, Squibnocket has reopened; signs warning that swimming was at your own risk have been removed. Town health agent Marina Lent said the state confirmed that average bacteria readings were at acceptable levels, after an anomalous high reading.

In Oak Bluffs, Inkwell beach has reopened today, Oak Bluffs health agent Shirley Fauteux confirmed; all beaches in town are now open.

The Holmes Hole Sailing Association continued its summer season of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven harbor with a night race on July 7.

Thursday night was a nice evening with a 5 knot south wind. Seventeen boats posted for the 6 p.m. start at red nun 6. The course took the fleet to nun 4 at West Chop, then to green can 23a at East Chop and back to nun 6. The first leg was a run downwind. After rounding the nun, a starboard reach to the can was followed by a beat to windward to the finish line.

Edgartown School principal John Stevens has announced the honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2010-2011 academic year.

Eighth grade high honors go to: Aubrey Ashmun, Erik Faber, Gabriella Hoxsie and Megan Hurley

Eighth grade honors go to: Dunovan Belisle, Charlotte Hammond, Erin Hegarty, Hanna Kim, Kevin Montambault, Charlie Morano, Daniel Nelson Jr. and Spencer Schofield.

Seventh grade high honors go to: Katherine Dourian, Renato Gomes, Olivia Green-Lingren, Elizabeth Hayman, Jared Livingston and Amadine Muniz.

By REMY TUMIN

Six Edgartown establishments have been reported to the selectmen after an under-age alcohol sweep by the town police on Friday.

South Beach, liquor stores and liquor serving establishments were the target of a special underage enforcement operation.

Arrests were made at South Beach and summonses were issued at liquor stores.

Boulders, looking like the playthings of giants, are strewn over the rolling banks of South Road. Tumbling down from the walls, the rocks stand guard at this thoroughfare as they have done for hundreds of years, witnesses to all that has happened here, even as they shift with the changes in land and weather.