Piano Restoration Company

Welcomes Visitors Sunday

Stanwood & Company invites the public to visit the piano workshop at 50 Lamberts Cove Road, West Tisbury, on Sunday, July 6, for its first-ever open house in celebration of 28 years of service, tuning and restoring pianos on the Island. The workshop will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Visitors can meet the staff, view and play a newly restored vintage Mason & Hamlin piano, and learn about pianos and the history of Stanwood & Company.

Grace Potter is two hours into her summer tour and she’s already laughing. The woman who throws herself at a Hammond B-3 organ with a force that can only be described as feral retains her cheerful sense of rock and roll social awareness.

“Yeah, we’ve got a new vehicle,” she reports. “A sprint-er.”

Hello, Gannon and Lucy

Lisa Magnarelli-Magden and Laura L. Denman-Magden of West Tisbury announce the birth of a son and daughter, Gannon Thomas Gathright Magden and Lucy Stanton Love Magden, born on June 18 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Big sister Georgia welcomes them.

Gannon weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces at birth, and Lucy weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces.

Announcing Maeve

Caitlin Cook and Calder Martin of Chilmark would like to announce the birth of their daughter, Maeve Youngblood McKoin Cook-Martin, on June 17 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Maeve weighed 9 pounds, 10.8 ounces at birth.

The Unitarian Universalist Society of Martha’s Vineyard hosts a guest minister, the Rev. Stephen M. Shick, on Sunday, July 6, at 11 a.m. at its chapel at 238 Main street, Vineyard Haven. Reverend Schick will preach on Jefferson’s Bible and Yours.

The Rev. William B. Heuss, priest in charge of Trinity Episcopal Church in Oak Bluffs, will preach and celebrate the service at Trinity on Sunday, July 6 and Sunday, July 13. The services will start at 9 a.m.

The Vineyard sent three youth soccer teams to the Massachusetts Tournament of Champions in Lancaster this past weekend and had one team — the boys’ 11-and-under squad — qualify for the championship game by winning three grueling preliminary games against some of the toughest teams in the state.

She’s top of the Pops: Katie Mayhew last night won the Boston Pops High School Sing-Off at Symphony Hall.

The 16-year-old Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School student earned the chance to perform with the orchestra at Friday’s Fourth of July Pops concert on the Esplanade.

Katie sang Being Alive, from the musical Company, throughout the competition, which began in May and prompted hundreds of entries.

A taxi owned by Adam Cab crashed into a utility pole on Lagoon Pond Road across from the Tisbury post office early Thursday morning, snarling traffic at the Five Corners intersection for several hours on one of the busiest days of the year. The accident occurred around 7 a.m., just as the early morning boats were arriving to deliver throngs of visitors and seasonal residents for the busy Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Hello, Stella

Gina Heysek and Peter Breese of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a daughter, Stella Vita Heysek-Breese, on June 24 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Stella weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces at birth.