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The Holmes Hole Sailing Association continued its summer season of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven Harbor with two Harbor races on June 26.
Edgartown attorney Edward W. (Peter) Vincent Jr. is expected to be temporarily suspended from practicing law, after he agreed to a petition filed by the Office of the Bar Counsel in Supreme Judicial Court arguing that “[Mr. Vincent’s] continued practice of law would pose a threat of substantial harm to clients or prospective clients.”
According to Constance Vecchione, chief bar counsel to the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, “You get a temporary suspension when there are facts showing a lawyer poses a threat of substantial harm.”
As this year’s Fourth of July parade approached its grand finale at the Old Whaling Church on Main street in Edgartown, the faint whistling of fife and drum could be heard above the roar of the crowd, signaling the arrival of the parade’s leaders, the Island’s veterans, at their final stop.
As police lights flashed and sirens wailed through the heavy fog that settled in over Moshup Trail, 100 children, clad head to toe in their red-white-and-blue finery, paraded down Old South Road in Aquinnah.
What started nine years ago as a group of eight children strolling on Philbin Beach has transformed into a neighborhood event every year on the Fourth of July.
Recreational boat traffic in Vineyard harbors was off during the first weeks of summer, but harbor masters report that all changed last Friday, when all four harbors were suddenly full for Independence Day weekend.
“I don’t know if it is the weather, the price of gasoline and the economy,” said Dennis Jason, Chilmark harbor master. “It could be all three.”
About midday yesterday, the lady bather was treading her way carefully through the dunes, ducking as a small group of avian aggressors swooped around her, piping angrily. Only when she finally plunged into the sea did they break off the attack.
About 100 feet away, Caitlin Borck was encouraged.
It’s not that she enjoys seeing other people get swooped, or likes getting swooped herself — and occasionally, deliberately, unerringly excreted upon — by the little birds.