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Puppets in the Garden
Puppets in the Garden is a special day for families to walk the paths of Polly Hill Arboretum and find puppet surprises among the trees. The program is set for Sunday, July 27, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the arboretum in West Tisbury.
Magical Marionettes
Dan Butterworth and his Magical Marionettes perform today, July 25, at 6 p.m. at the Tisbury School for the community.
Bring your kids, bring your parents, for Mr. Butterworth travels the world with a menagerie of characters — all moving on his intricate stage, into the air, and right out into the audience.
After the show, he will offer a demonstration of the tricks that lie behind the effects, so be sure to stay for insight into a rare art form.
Robynn Murray stood alone in the kitchen. Bread in the toaster, she twirled a butter knife in a tub of Nutella and looked out across the brown Chilmark fields of North Road. She spread the warm bread thick; stuck the knife back in the jar. “I got these when I got back from Iraq,” she said. She licked a crumb of toast from the corner of her mouth and pointed to the two guns tattooed on her chest, their barrels facing each other.
Results of the top sailboats in last weekend’s Vineyard Cup have been released by Sail Martha’s Vineyard, an Island nonprofit that manages the event.
In Class 1, Miss Maralyn skippered by Ehren Federowicz placed first, followed by Lucky Lady, whose skippers were Dick and Pat King, and Silhouette skippered by Rebecca Colson.
In Class 2, Mischief skippered by Phil Hale came in first, Arion skippered by Peter Strock came in second, and Magic Time skippered by Dan Culkin placed third.
The Vineyard Cup attracted 106 boats on Saturday for a 13-mile race across Nantucket Sound and back. The sailboats crossed the start in four separate class starts around noon.
In the three days of racing that began on Friday and ended on Sunday, one of the newest boats on the waterfront did the best.
The West Tisbury zoning board of appeals on Wednesday unanimously agreed to allow well-known restaurateurs Mary and Jackson Kenworth to expand the footprint of the former Deon’s restaurant on State Road, approving plans for a new 2,170-square-foot year-round restaurant.
The board earlier this month cited a town bylaw which restricts commercial use in a residential zone to 2,000 square feet and expressed concern about the viability of the plan submitted by the Kenworths, who own and operate the popular Slice of Life Café in Oak Bluffs.