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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is scheduled to make a brief trip to the Vineyard Saturday for a private fundraising event.
Mr. Romney has no public appearances planned during his visit.
The event is a clambake luncheon at the Oak Bluffs home of Kate and Jim Sims in Farm Neck.
State officials this morning presented more than $284,000 in grants to fund clean energy projects for the towns of Tisbury and West Tisbury through the Green Communities Act.
Appearing on the Agricultural Fair’s central stage, Department of Energy Resources Commissioner Mark Sylvia said, “It is an absolutely pleasure to be here to join the Agricultural Society and the towns of Tisbury and West Tisbury to celebrate two of our newest designated green communities.”
Kennith Kirk tugged the hem of his mother’s dress. Over the screams and laughs of his two twin siblings, Maya and Robert, Kennith’s question was barely audible to all but his mother.
“Why are there so many moons?” the three-year-old wanted to know. Maya, seven, whipped her head around and said “They’re lightbulbs!”
Tonight's the night for the annual Oak Bluffs fireworks show, sponsored by the Oak Bluffs Fireman's Civic Association and, for the first time this year, Black Entertainment Television. Fireworks start at dusk at Ocean Park. Music by the Vineyard Haven Band begins at 8 p.m.
Parking is available at Waban Park. A limited number of handicap parking spaces are available first come, first serve in front of the Civil War monument by the Oak Bluffs police station. No cars will be allowed to park in front of Ocean Park during the fireworks.
A group of retired athletes, academics, writers and social activists convened a forum on race and gender in sports here this week, and generally described a bleak landscape for the African American athlete in the 21st century.
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, headed by Prof. Charles J. Ogletree Jr., staged its annual Vineyard forum Wednesday, this year entitled Between the Lines: Race and Gender in Sports in the 21st Century.
To anyone who has spent a languid summer afternoon tumbling in the waves on South Beach or watched the earth’s closest star dip into the horizon at Menemsha, the ocean can seem eternal and unchanging. But scientists are increasingly discovering that human activity is transforming what was once thought to be an invulnerable resource. The ocean is getting warmer, more acidic, louder and filled with the detritus of civilization. What effect these changes will have on the ocean’s inhabitants in the decades to come is unclear.