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Several residents of State Road in Tisbury contacted police early Sunday morning to report a disruptive argument between two men that quickly escalated into a physical altercation. Police were alerted to the fracas near the entrance of the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road around 3:20 a.m., and arrived to find two men yelling at each other and one with a bloody nose.
The brawl had slowed traffic and disrupted neighbors, but when police arrived the two men separated and said they were friends. Both said they did not wish to press charges.
A Jazz Tribute to President Obama, an original work of words and music by Columbia Law School professor and columnist for The Nation Patricia Williams and composer and saxophonist Oliver Lake, will be performed on Saturday, July 25, at 4 p.m. in Ocean Park as the centerpiece of Della Hardman Day. The performance is free and open to the public.
A new poetry performance series, Island Voices, continues at Che’s Lounge on Wednesday, July 22nd at 7:30 p.m. Clark Myers will host the event, with poets Jill Jupen, Don Nitchie and John Maloney performing their work, followed by an open reading. All Island poets are invited.
Former long-serving CBS anchor, and longtime seasonal Martha’s Vineyard resident Walter Cronkite has died, aged 92.
The New York Times reported Mr, Cronkite’s son’s announcement of his death, shortly before 8 p.m. Friday. The network for which he anchored the evening news from 1962 to 1981, immediately interrupted its prime time programming to show an obituary.
During his tenure as CBS news anchor, Mr.
The White House added confirmation of an Obama family via an email sent to the Vineyard Gazette Friday afternoon.
As previously reported in the Gazette, the First Family will spend the last week of August vacationing on the Island.
The email from a White House spokesperson added: "They’ve spent vacation time there before and are looking forward to relaxing together as a family at the end of a very busy summer."
In a perverse way, the article in a recent edition of New York magazine suggesting the African American community on Martha’s Vineyard was segregationist, elitist and even perhaps racist, was testament to black achievement.
After all, the young African American author of the article, who goes by the single name Touré, was airing very much the same criticisms that are more usually leveled at the white establishment. Absent a black elite, he could not have done it.