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Bodhi Path
The Bodhi Path Buddhist Center’s off-season schedule will include meditation sessions on four days of the week.
Tuesday and Thursday sessions will be from 6 to 7 p.m., Saturday mornings will be from 10 to 11:15 a.m. and include sitting meditation and yoga. On Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m. there will be meditation or teachings.
The Bodhi Path center is located at 21 Laurand Drive in West Tisbury. For more information, call 508-696-5929.
The Mallory Trophy was originally offered to Lord Horatio Nelson by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire after the admiral’s victory over Napoleon on the Nile. Now it belongs to two Vineyard sailors after their victory over the field in the U.S. Men’s Sailing National Championship.
After a windy weekend in Sheboygan, Mich., the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club’s Paul Wilson and William Stevens, along with the Naragansett Yachting Association’s John Plominski, won the most prestigious amateur event in sailing in thrilling style.
As budget planning begins for the coming fiscal year, Oak Bluffs is projecting a budget shortfall, the chairman of the finance committee told town selectmen on Tuesday.
With two weeks left in the 65th annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, fishermen are fretting about the weather, which has been unkind to anglers. Wind — lots of it and from every direction — has been the story of September.
There are 2,400 fishermen registered in the derby. Ask any one of them how they are doing and they will likely talk about the wind — the bad wind from the east, the tough wind last week from the north, and tomorrow the forecast for high, gusty winds from the south.
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football plays its first home game of the season tonight at 6:30 p.m., taking on 0-3 South Shore Vocational Tech. The Vineyarders are fresh off a 41-32 win against league opponent Coyle Cassidy — putting head coach Don Herman just two wins away from 200 career victories — and are 3-0 on the season.
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football plays its first home game of the season tonight at 6:30 p.m., taking on 0-3 South Shore Vocational Tech. The Vineyarders are fresh off a 41-32 win against league opponent Coyle Cassidy — putting head coach Don Herman just two wins away from 200 career victories — and are 3-0 on the season.
A public hearing on revisions to a bylaw in Edgartown that regulates hours for construction and landscaping crews drew lively and varied comments during the regular selectmen’s meeting on Monday afternoon.
Proposed by the selectmen, the bylaw changes are expected to come before voters at the annual town meeting in April. The revised bylaw would slightly alter the hours when construction is allowed, with a start time half an hour later in the morning and a finish time half an hour earlier at night.