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Rachel Reagan

Rachel Reagan of Oak Bluffs received a bachelor of arts in English (Writing, Communication and Rhetoric) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth undergraduate commencement on May 22.

Geoffrey Phillips

Anna Maria College announces that Geoffrey E. Phillips of Edgartown received his master of science in criminal justice degree at the college’s commencement held on Saturday, May 14, in Worcester.

The latest victim of deep cuts to health and human service funding at the state and federal level, the Vineyard Family Planning clinic, which has provided Islanders with a wide array of confidential health services at affordable rates for some 30 years, is now facing the very real threat of closure.

For Martha’s Vineyard veterans the past year has been one of frustration as they have been forced to travel off-Island for treatment, and often left to pay the bill.

After administrators discovered more than a year and a half ago that the contract between the Veterans Administration and the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital had expired, Island veterans, some more than 90 years of age, have had to navigate a maze of bureaucracy and endure day-long trips to Providence, R.I., for basic treatment.

Summer is peeking in at the Island, with buds and bushes in full bloom and sunsets that spread across the western sky with rosy-hued fingertips.

And it’s summer for business too — shops are opening, gardeners and farmers are busy putting flowers and crops in the ground, and more than a few new shingling and painting jobs are in evidence around the Island.