They came from Guantanamo, Havana and Bayamo. And they came to dance. The Malpaso Dance Company from Cuba performed three sold out performances at the Yard in Chilmark last weekend.

Inaugural season for the renovated Strand and Capawock theatres in Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven is off to a solid start.

Martha’s Vineyard Airport manager Sean Flynn is leaving his job, the chairman of airport commission said Thursday, capping months of tension over operational issues and workplace disputes. “We’re negotiating an amicable separation,” commission chairman Myron Garfinkle told the Gazette.

The 147th Grand Illumination was celebrated Wednesday under a new moon and thick summer air. Lanterns from around the world, some passed down through generations of Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association families, decorated the porches of the gingerbread cottages in the center of Oak Bluffs.

In high school, Julie Taymor taught drama and mask making at the Chilmark Community Center's summer camp. She has had quite a career since then. On Thursday, she will give a talk at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center after a screening of her latest film A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The airport is under an Oct. 15 deadline to correct several deficiencies in airport operations or face potential sanctions, including loss of its status as a commercial airport. The airport manager has taken an unscheduled vacation.