News

The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced in a ceremony at the Gay Head Cliffs Wednesday morning that it had named the Gay Head Light to its 2013 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered...
The U.S. Coast Guard has abandoned plans to modernize the optic at the Gay Head Light and will instead maintain the current sweeping beam. Lieut. Matthew Stuck of the Coast Guard aids to navigation...
The Aquinnah bay scallop season ends Friday, marking what is believed to be the latest date for a bay scallop season closing in the commonwealth. The scallop season usually runs from fall until the...

Celebrations

Seaman Recruit Christopher Manning graduated second in his class from Basic Enlisted Submarine School in Groton, Conn. on May 31. He was meritoriously advanced at the ceremony from E1 to E2 based on...
Evan Hall of Aquinnah was named to the fall 2012 dean’s list at Berklee College of Music. 
Claudine and Brendan Hanley of New York city and Aquinnah announce the birth of a daughter, Sarah O’Shea Hanley, born on March 28 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York city. Sarah weighed 7.4 pounds at...

Obituaries

Emory Alan Francis died at his Aquinnah home on Monday, May 20. He was 70.
Ruth Waters Johnson, mother, friend and grandmother, died on Saturday, March 2 at the age of 85. Born outside Philadelphia in 1927, Ruth lived life full-tilt, from the sidewalks of New York to the...