Politics is in the air this coming week, so buckle up. Voters get out there and make your voices heard.

A group called Mass Mobilization is taking a busload of Vineyarders to Boston Saturday to raise a ruckus about the activities of the Trump Administration. The Boston rally, on the Common at 11 a.m., is one of more than 600 scheduled events across the country and promises to send a loud, clear message to Washington.

If you miss the bus, (and it was nearly sold out several days ago), “Hands Off!” Is the slogan adopted by the group Indivisible Martha’s Vineyard, which is sponsoring a protest at Five Corners in Vineyard Haven at 1 p.m. on Saturday. It is not too soon to object to the mean-spirited and piggish attitudes of those who have taken charge of the federal government. So dust off those protest signs and go get good and mad.

Then on Tuesday, April 8, meet your neighbors at the school for a much milder (probably) annual town meeting — a New England tradition where local townspeople meet their elected officials to plan the up-coming year’s administration of the town. If you are registered here to vote, join the crowd at 5:55 p.m. at the school and flex your voting muscle. For newbies, “warrant” just means “agenda.” It’s an olde Shakespearean term in use around here since some Pilgrims build a summer place on Tiah’s cove.

Voting for town officials takes place Thursday, April 10, at the fire station on State Road across the street from Conroy’s. There is only one contest: that of Board of Health membership. The candidates are Peter D’Angelo and Dan Sauer.

On the backside of the ballot there is another reason to show up and vote. There are a couple of questions requesting an additional $1.6 million to fund the school budget. By state law the town cannot increase a budget item by more than 2.5 per cent per year without specifically getting permission from the voters. One of the two override questions asks for repairs to the school building, the other for a feasibility study of the school’s future needs. The question really is: “Is this request feasible?” It might inspire a few more voters to express their thoughts. The town keeps growing folks, and running it doesn’t get cheaper.

The Martha’s Vineyard Figure Skating Club is putting on an ice show called Nature’s Symphony. Two West Tisbury teens you will see gliding and glittering across the ice are Ellie Pennington and Hannah Haynes. Ellie is a senior at the high school, so this is the last of her Vineyard performances. Hannah, a seventh grader, strives to be the next Alysa Liu and had time to expand her skills and perfect her spins before moving on. Both girls made it to Boston last week to see the ISU World Championships. The local skating club has 80 or 90 people — not all girls and not all kids. Showtime is 6 p.m. Friday, April 4 and at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 5.

It is a birthday weekend for Deborah Mayhew, Nathaniel Hayns and Connor Bettencourt who all celebrate on Friday, April 4. Happy birthdyay to Craig Saunders on Monday, April 7, and to Reid Silva on Wednesday, April 9. The birthday spotlight shines on Caroline Mayhew and Heidi Estrella Thursday, April 10.

Belated but sincere congratulations to Bob and Daisy Kimberley who celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary March 28. They were, of course, toddlers at the time of their wedding.