The readers of the Gazette will please bear with us this week for the lack of extended news of local affairs.
Irene Murdoch at 99 years old lit the first lantern Wednesday evening at the 151st Grand Illumination Night in the Oak Bluffs Camp Ground.
Illumination Night will held as planned on August 18, but festivities have been modified and scaled back due to Covid concerns.
Once again lanterns will be hung by the porches with care as Grand Illumination night returns this summer on August 18.
Skunks outnumbered pedestrians in the Oak Bluffs Campground Wednesday evening on what would have been Illumination night.
The Oak Bluffs fireworks will be cancelled this year due to the pandemic, the town firemen’s civic association said late Wednesday.
On Wednesday evening the Grand Illumination started the same way it has for 150 years — with a community sing.
