Hundreds of people attended Brazil Fest Sunday, with children competing in three-legged races and pinning tails on an illustrated donkey draped in a Brazilian flag, while older attendees visited tables highlighting the work of local organizations.

A veteran housing project planned for Bellevue avenue in Oak Bluffs could break ground by next May after getting approval from the town’s zoning board of appeals this week. 

The Agricultural Hall will fill with the sound of forró music and the smell of sweet rice this Sunday for the Island’s first Brazil Fest.

Select board chair Gail Barmakian invited Robert Davis to the board’s Tuesday meeting after Oak Bluffs wasn’t notified about the potential of 41 North Offshore using the Steamship’s Oak Bluffs terminal to ship freight and heavy equipment to and from New Bedford.

Historian and Wampanoag tribal elder Linda Coombs recently published Colonization and the Wampanoag Story. On Monday, she spoke at Aquinnah town hall about her book and her career.

Equine experts and small animal veterinarians held a class recently in animal first aid to help address the lack of veterinary care on the Island.