Voters turned out steadily for the town election Thursday, casting ballots in a tightly-contested race for selectman.

Wikipedia defines an endplay in bridge as “a tactical play where a defender is put on lead at a strategic moment, and then has to make a play that loses one or more tricks. Most commonly the losing play either constitutes a free finesse, or else it gives declarer a ruff and discard.”

Here’s an example roughly based on an online deal. South is dealing, with no one vulnerable. Here are the North-South hands:
      

NORTH                    
♠️ A K 9 4
♥️ K 9 7                    
♦️ J 8                 
♣️ A 8 6 4   

With the county ranking last in the state in response to the 2020 census, Island organizers are stepping up outreach.

Thousands in the streets
March against injustice without retreat
To change the status quo
Agitate, disrupt and provoke
It is what protests do
Bodies like sand pebbles on a beach
Side by side as far as the eyes can see
Step by step peacefully into the light
While chaos ensues in shadows of night
As if armed for war
Police engage and show their might
Restraint succumbs by those enraged
Staining the streets as well as the cause
Yet, without such mayhem and threat

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School class of 2020 began the year on a note of togetherness, gathering to watch the sunrise.

I want to thank everyone who made this year’s graduation ceremony and celebration possible.

The time has come for the Black Lives Matter “Don’t Kill Me” campaign to move in a new direction with a new sign

I don’t think it was until I stood under a lynching tree in Selma, Ala. that I really stepped into my white privilege

Tonight in the town election for Tisbury, myself and three others were denied our right to vote.

With manmade openings at the Edgartown Great Pond a long-established practice, I would like to raise a question about the more recent practice of dredging.