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The difficulty and frustration of having a family member with a mental illness is universal, but it is oftentimes a very solitary struggle. The mentally ill do not share the kind of popular support that is afforded to other, less common afflictions, a reflection of the stigma and fear that still surrounds disorders of the brain. The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts is reaching out to Islanders affected by the complexities of relationships, whether family members or significant others, of individuals with a serious mental illness. Along with the Mass.
In their second year in the league, the Martha’s Vineyard boys’ basketball team this week earned a share of the Eastern Athletic Conference regular season championship, with a thrilling and hard-fought 59-55 win against foe Bishop Stang on Tuesday before the largest home crowd of the season.
The team will share the conference title with cochampions Bishop Feehan.
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has suddenly jumped into the casino game again, telling the Freetown selectmen that they plan to try to secure a state license to operate a gambling facility in southeastern Massachusetts.
On Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard shut down 24 of its American Loran-C transmitters around the country and afar. For many older commercial fishermen it marked the end of an era.
Fishermen today use the Global Positioning System (GPS), the same satellite system now used in automobiles and hand-held computer devices.
As the lights went out and The Jackson 5’s ABC began playing, there was nothing left to do backstage, for adults and kids alike, but to get down with a final preshow dance, reveling in the excitement of closing night of the Fourth Grade Theatre Project performance of Calculated Risk.
This past weekend there were two plays performed by kids from the Tisbury school (Calculated Risk and Tornado Fourth Grade-O); this weekend there will be two more plays (Digging for Clues and A Map for Freedom), performed by students from the West Tisbury School.