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The Rotary Club of Martha’s Vineyard along with the Boys’ & Girls’ Club, the Island Affordable Housing Fund and the Martha’s Vineyard Museum will host its annual, three-day Martha’s Vineyard Antiques Show. The benefit show kicks off on July 30 with a preview party, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., offering an opportunity to see the many wonderful antiques on display, and to enjoy hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, and lots of good company. The cost is $50, and reservations are strongly recommended; for tickets, call 508-627-6652.
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival opens its 14th season on Thursday, July 30, with a recital by internationally acclaimed cellist Inbal Segev, accompanied by pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera.
It wasn’t long ago that Oak Bluffs police chief Erik Blake could not imagine riding a bike across town, never mind across the Island, or halfway across the state.
“Let’s put it this way: I wasn’t much of a cyclist,” the chief bluntly remarked last week. “I had the usual mountain bike and I sometimes took it out in the park . . . but it was casual, it was for fun more than anything,” he said.
Edgartown selectmen yesterday commended three South Beach lifeguards for saving the life of a bather at the right fork on July 18.
John McMahon, 55, from Braintree was swimming in high waves when he was knocked into the seabed, injuring his spine. He was unconscious and bleeding from the head when David Espindle, 20, and William Reagan, 18, reached him.
A 361-pound porbeagle shark was the winning fish in the weekend’s 23rd annual Monster Shark Tournament in Oak Bluffs. The fish was caught by the crew of a Marshfield fishing boat called Karen Jean II. The captain of the vessel was David Dion of Galveston, Tex.; the boat owner was John Anderson of Marshfield and crewman was William Murphy of New Bedford.
The state Department of Revenue has agreed to allow a large portion of Seven Gates Farm in West Tisbury to be classified as a working farm and recreational land under chapter 61A and 61B of the Massachusetts General Laws, a decision that will cost the town of West Tisbury some $100,000 in lost property tax revenue.
Effective July 1, the changed classification will apply to some 930 acres of common land at Seven Gates, a residential community that spans the towns of Chilmark and West Tisbury and includes some 1,600 acres.