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It’s a quiet Friday in Stina Sayre’s tiny clothing store, near the Black Dog Tavern in Vineyard Haven. The quiet is unusual for early August, when tourist foot traffic generally makes it difficult to look forward to any free time in the early afternoon. But the owner and designer makes the best of the downtime, shuffling between clothing patterns and swatches of fabric spread out across a broad table at the back of the room, where her unique designs are born and come to life.
Correction
The poem of Portrait of My Husband Reading Henry James, published on Friday, August 6, was originally published in the journal Ploughshares. The poet’s name, Mary Stewart Hammond, was misspelled. The Gazette regrets the errors.
Acting Edgartown police chief Tony Bettencourt was officially appointed the town’s chief of police, at a board of selectmen meeting Monday afternoon.
The swearing-in ceremony was short and sweet, wrapping up in under a minute. “That’s probably the easiest thing you’ll do as chief,” joked selectman Michael Donaroma.
It’s only just over a week before gates open on the 149th annual Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair on Thursday, August 19, but already it is time to sign up for jobs and prepare your entries for all categories — and time even to mark on your calendar earlier deadlines for next year’s extraordinary celebrations of the 150th fair.
Lest one of the last dog-friendly public beaches on Martha’s Vineyard is closed to them, a group of responsible dog owners have taken it upon themselves to police the rules at Lambert’s Cove Beach.
The group came together last week, at a meeting of the West Tisbury parks and recreation board, in response to a growing number of complaints about the behavior of dogs and their owners at the town beach.
On Sunday night opponents of wind development off Vineyard shores — including selectmen, fishermen, Wampanoags and a Republican candidate for Massachusetts governor — were given a megaphone to voice their views.
Hosted by POINT (Protect Our Islands Now for Tomorrow), a group led by Andrew Goldman of Chilmark, the forum drew a large crowd to the Chilmark Community Center.
“We will have the largest concentration of turbines anywhere in the world,” declared Mr. Goldman, who moderated the forum.