News
Northeastern Dean’s List
The following Island students were recently named to the dean’s list at Northeastern University for the spring semester: Michael Coulter of Edgartown, Gabrielle Sullo and Hannah Van Osten of Oak Bluffs, and Gabriella Dasilva of Vineyard Haven.
Sophia Arrives
Kerry Cummings and Sean Cummings of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a daughter, Sophia Grace Cummings, born on May 25, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Sophia weighed 6 pounds, 14.5 ounces at birth.
Duplicate Bridge
North and South trumps East and West in a Grand Slam ending that slams the competition. Can’t pass on that, right?
Perhaps an explanation is in order.
The duplicate bridge summer season begins on Thursday, June 16 at 7 p.m. at the Culinary Arts Center at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs. The cards will be dealt every Thursday night all summer long. Cost is $6 a session. Feel free to come alone or bring a partner.
Behind a small unobtrusive sign near Beetlebung Corner on Middle Road in Chilmark beats what many feel is the heart of dance on the Island. This is the location of the Yard, a Vineyard fixture since 1973.
A vibrant summer at the Yard was by no means a certainty this year, though, after it was revealed last fall that the dance organization was deeply in debt. In announcing its summer season, the Yard looks to a financially stable future that builds upon its longtime reputation of artistic integrity.
Skidmore Graduate
Isobel Flake, of Vineyard Haven, received her bachelor of arts degree cum laude from Skidmore College at its 100th commencement exercises held Saturday, May 21, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
It’s not every day that you can walk into the Grange Hall and hear the steel drums of the Drum Workshop, Inc. plinking in one corner, the delicate strumming of the berimbau from the Angola Center for Capoeira drifting in from another, and artists, artisans and performers chatting about the various projects they have on the horizon.