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The banner of the king of Scots depicts a lion rampant, red on a gold background. In heraldic terms, that lion represents bravery, valor, strength and royalty.
But as it has fluttered on a pole outside the Scottish Bakehouse on State Road in Vineyard Haven over the past week or so, it has represented something else: frustration with town bureaucracy.
It flies there because bakehouse owner Daniele Dominick, has been told she is not allowed to fly the red, white and blue flag which used to be there, and carried the single-word message: “Open.”
The skies threatened rain, but the event stayed dry except for the occasional shower of tears. It was standing room only at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs Sunday afternoon as hundreds of friends, family, teachers and neighbors gathered to watch the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Class of 2011 graduate. The graduates milled about with friends and family before lining up for their procession, the boys in their purple gowns on the right, the girls in their white gowns on the left.
The Vineyard boys’ tennis team turned in their strongest performance of the season Friday afternoon in Barnstable, but could not overcome the rackets of Cape Cod Academy, falling 3-2 in the finals of the MIAA South Section Tournament.
It was a game good enough for the likes of Bill Murray, who watched the wooden bat action standing behind home plate, as the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks defeated the Seacoast Mavericks with a score of 6-1 in their Island opener on Friday.
Red Sox Hall of Famer Bob “The Steamer” Stanley threw out the first pitch after a small ceremony honoring those, including Vineyard schools superintendent Jim Weiss and regional high school principal Steve Nixon, who had been instrumental in welcoming the Sharks to the Island.
Edgartown Marine has been sold to new owners.
George and Sheryl Roth Rogers of Lexington and Vineyard Haven will take ownership of the business at the town-owned boat yard on Monday, pending bank approval. The boat yard is at the end of Morse street on the Edgartown harbor.
The sellers are Maurice Dore and Anthony (Tony) Chianase; the sale price has not been disclosed. Edgartown selectmen approved transfer of a long-term lease for the new owners at a special selectmen’s meeting Friday afternoon.
Correction
A series of photographs showing the top 10 graduating seniors at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in the Tuesday Gazette mistakenly switched the names beneath the pictures for Jill McHugh and Naomi Pallas, who are both tied for fourth honors in the class. The photographs appear above with correct identification. The Gazette regrets the error.