Airing it Out at Trinity Church, Big Three Play Refurbished Organ
The concert begins at 4 p.m.
“Music has always been important at Trinity,” said organist Wesley Brown, who has been playing at the church for 20 years.
Felipe Cabrera
Carrying signs and eliciting honks from passing cars, protestors gathered at Five Corners in Vineyard Haven on Saturday morning to voice concern about the ethics of Monsanto, an agribusiness company.
Christina Montoya, 41, and Kristin Hall, 35, both of West Tisbury, organized the event locally, drawing more than 30 people.
The demonstration is part of a series of actions taking place around the globe called March Against Monsanto.
For Island businesses and contractors, this is a pivotal time of year — crunch time, you could call it. Ferry traffic picks up; the seasonal Steamship Authority port in Oak Bluffs is now open for the summer and privately-operated passenger ferries will begin running their late spring schedule this weekend.
In the cemeteries in Oak
Bluffs, Oak Grove and Sacred Heart, stars and stripes mark the graves of veterans, men and women who fought and served in wars ranging from the Civil War to the World Wars and up to Afghanistan.
Last Saturday morning, Patryck Nascimento, a Brazilian student at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, volunteered to plant American flags and replace old ones at the two cemeteries.
The classroom is up the open staircase to the right in room 220 at the Edgartown School. Flags of world nations hang from the ceiling. There is a quote on the door that reads, “No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship.” This is the English Language Learning room, although it is not the only place in the school where English language learning takes place.
A Vineyard Haven store that caters to the Island Brazilian community is getting a makeover.
On a recent Tuesday morning culinary students at the Martha’s Vineyard High School were preparing lunch for some of the teachers. They baked foccacia bread and made sandwiches with vegetables, whipped ricotta cheese and roast chicken, and Italian sausage and mozzarella cheese.
“The food is extraordinary,” said Cindy West, a Spanish teacher who attended the lunch. But cooking wasn’t the only item on the educational menu