Announcing Rocco

Nerissa Giles and Daniel Marshall announce the birth of a son, Rocco David Marshall, born on Feb. 24, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Rocco weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces at birth.

Celebrate Cub Scouts

Vineyard Cub Scouts will celebrate scouting anniversary week with a celebration called the blue and gold banquet. The celebration potluck will be held on Thursday, March 11 at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. The annual blue and gold banquet is the highlight of the scouting year. It will bring families together for an evening of fun and inspiration.

Efforts to Help Haiti

Volunteers of the Martha’s Vineyard Fish Farm for Haiti Project are hosting a potluck supper, Saturday, March 6, at the common house of Cohousing in West Tisbury, to brainstorm and make plans for this summer’s fund raising events.

Past events have included three concerts at the Tabernacle, tennis tournaments, Haitian art sale benefits and numerous other events. The group hopes to make this summer’s fundraisers for Haiti the biggest and best yet.

The dream season for the the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School boys’ basketball came to end earlier today, as the Vineyarders lost a hard-fought and high-scoring thriller at Wareham by a final score of 92-75 in the second round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Assocation tournament.

With the loss, the Vineyarders finish the season with a stellar record of 16-4; earlier this week they defeated Rockland at home in the first round of the tournament.

A small group of Islanders spent the six-week winter term for the Adult and Community Education (ACE MV) program preparing for spring in Nicaragua. Some were busy studying the history of Latin America and the Caribbean; others enrolled in beginner Spanish or took a one-day training workshop for teaching the English language through the arts. Some took all three.