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The third annual Martha’s Vineyard Yoga Festival returns this year, and while you have until Labor Day to stretch with the best of them, yoga devotees will want to purchase tickets now. Read more...

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Wisdom and Grace of the Ages, Centenarian Pens Eleventh Book

Margaret Howe Freydberg of Chilmark was 104 in March and celebrated this month with the publication of her 11th book, Cruachan: The Battle Cry of Scottish Chieftains. It is a long short story, originally written many years ago, after her first and only visit to Scotland in the 1950s.

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Vineyard Week

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Open Ceramics Studio for Children ages three to five with Brianna Valenti is from 1 to 2 p.m. at Featherstone in Oak Bluffs. Cost is $5. For details, call 508-693-1850 or visit featherstoneart.org.

After-School Crafts Crafts for ages five and up is from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library. Free. For details, call 508-696-4211.

Free Teen After-School Mixed Media with Elyse Clark is from 3 to 5 p.m. at Featherstone in Oak Bluffs. For details, call 508-693-1850 or visit featherstoneart.org.

Oil Painting for Children ages seven to nine with Lani Carney is from 3:15 to 5:45 p.m. at Featherstone in Oak Bluffs. Cost is $35. For details, call 508-693-9566 or visit featherstoneart.org.

Poetry Reading: Patrick Phillips and Emma Young read at 5 p.m. at the West Tisbury Library. Refreshments served. For information, call 508-693-3366.

Public Speaking Workshop with Rusty Shunk is from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Old Aquinnah Town Hall. Workshop with lecture, discussion and group exercises. Refreshments served. For questions, call 508-645-2314 or email aquilib@vineyard.net

Bodhi Path Meditation Session is from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Bodhi Path Buddhist Center at 21 Laurand Drive in West Tisbury. For more details, call 508-696-5929.

Special Event: Hooked Dinner Special Event: Hooked Dinner is from 6 to 9 p.m. at the former Lola's Restaurant in Oak Bluffs. Presented by the Martha's Vineyard Museum. Food prepared by chef Christian Thornton and museum items shown by curator Bonnie Stacy. Cost is $150 per person. Reservations required. For tickets and information, call 508-627-4441 ext. 117.

Gala Preview Party for the Friends of Family Planning MV Art Show and Sale is from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury. Tickets are $50 per person. Proceeds benefit Friends of Family Planning. Food by Kitchen Porch Catering. Music by Jeremy Berlin. For more information, visit friendsoffamilyplanning.org.

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News Update: Tuesday, May 22
Sengekontacket Opened for Shellfishing — With Conditions Parts of Sengekontacket Pond, from below Sarson’s island to an area near the Little Bridge, have been declared open for shellfishing by state environmental officials from May 1 through June 30...
3 commentsBy SARA BROWN
News Update: Saturday, May 19
Strategic Purchase by Market Owner Is Boon to Island Housing Trust A condemned, dilapidated building off Water street in Vineyard Haven will be the next project for the Island Housing Trust, thanks to Steve Bernier, the owner of Cronig’s Market, who announced Friday he had donated the house to the trust...
6 commentsBy PETER BRANNEN
Without a Tax Rate, Chilmark Turns to Short-Term Borrowing Delayed state approval for 2012 property assessments will force the town of Chilmark to operate on borrowed money for the early part of the fiscal year, the selectmen learned this week...
By REMY TUMIN
Wetlands Violator Faces Stiff State, Town Penalties A year after the Tisbury conservation commission discovered what it called the worst wetlands violation in decades, the town board, as well as the state Department of Environmental Protection, have come down hard on a West Chop homeowner..
By PETER BRANNEN
Oak Bluffs at a Crossroads Over New One-Way Traffic Pattern In Oak Bluffs, changes in a traffic pattern have a neighborhood physically divided, and some up in arms...
5 commentsBy SARA BROWN
West Tisbury Eyes Greener Future With Energy Designation West Tisbury is on the road to becoming a Green Community. The town is in the final stages of creating a plan to reduce energy use by 20 per cent over the next five years, with the goal of becoming designated a Green Community under the 2008 state Green Communities Act...
1 commentBy REMY TUMIN
Vineyard Athletes, From Youth Leagues To High School, Flock to Lacrosse On a Wednesday afternoon at the regional high school, the varsity and junior varsity sports teams are just finishing their practices. At the same time, cars pull up alongside the chain link fences ringing the fields and younger athletes step out, opening trunk doors and pulling out duffel bags of gear...
1 commentBy IVY ASHE
Anti-Apartheid Stance Garners Ultimate Award On July 1 Caroline Hunter of Oak Bluffs will receive the Rosa Parks Memorial Award from the National Education Association in Washington D.C. to honor her work in social justice, as well as her long career in education in the Cambridge school system...
1 commentBy PETER BRANNEN
News Update: Friday, May 18
Edgartown Books Will Stay After All The independent Main street bookstore will reopen next week under new ownership. Jeffrey and Joyce Sudikoff, Los Angeles residents who own a home in Edgartown, are the new owners of the Main street building and the business. The sale closed on Friday. Purchase price was not disclosed...
6 commentsBy SARA BROWN