An end of an era came to the East Chop Tennis Club at the annual August meeting on August 9. After 16 years as club manager, Ned Fennessy is retiring at the end of this season. A retirement party...

I have exchanged emails and phone conversations with Andrea Taylor over the last several years regarding Della Hardman Day. Della Hardman was an art professor, Gazette columnist and keeper of the...

Kim Blacklow is a senior partner at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, a global law firm that employs 12,000 lawyers. She is married to Ken Blacklow and they have a son, Issac, who is nine....

The Pan-Mass Challenge is the most successful athletic fundraising event in the nation. The event features a bike-a-thon that crosses much of Massachusetts. A typical year will find 5,500 to 6,000...

This interview is long overdue. Greg Coogan became a member of the Oak Bluffs board of selectmen 11 years ago. He is the senior member of the board. He ran for office the first time to keep the town...

Last fall Craig Dowley had a once-in-a-lifetime experience. He and four mates sailed in a race across the Atlantic. They began in the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa on Nov. 24 and...

You can’t spend much time in the presence of Ivo Meisner without concluding you are in the presence of a unique individual. Born in Estonia in 1944, he fled his homeland in advance of the...

It was a long, bleak winter, but weather was the least of our problems. We lost Dale Collinson, Helen Meleny, John Potter, Ruth and Mike Davin, Marty Mard, Russell Clark and Mark Hanschka. For those...

Normally I don’t like sequels. I often find them to be inferior products. So when John Potter asked me to review On the Track of the Monmouth’s Galleon, I said yes with some dread. The...

RICK HERRICK508-693-8065(herricklr@verizon.net)Have you ever thought about what makes a community special? I researched the subject by rereading my columns for this summer.We lost several longtime...