After 20 years in downtown Vineyard Haven, Midnight Farm will close its doors for good on Dec. 31.

Wednesday is for weeping. On Dec. 14, Pie in the Sky Bakery will close its doors for construction.

Sweet Bites Bakery opened just before Thanksgiving, and was inundated with orders for holiday cakes and pies. It was the best off-season welcome Valerio and Sonia Destefani could imagine.

Owners of the Sydney want to build a new 10,000-square-foot hotel with retail space and employee housing in the heart of downtown Edgartown.

Kenneth Pillsworth dropped out of college and moved to the Vineyard to become a jeweler.

Chef Judy Klumick is succinct when describing Black Sheep Luncheonette, an Edgartown eatery she runs with Patti Canha. “The Luncheonette is food truck style,” she said. “Wham, bam, done.”

Mocha Mott’s was bustling on Halloween morning when it opened up again for the first time in nine months.

Jasmine Thompson hears the same thing at every art party she hosts. “I don’t even know how to draw a stick figure,” someone will inevitably say.

Samantha Church wasn’t planning on becoming a businesswoman. But she saw a market for a locals-only jewelry store on Circuit avenue, the busiest street in Oak Bluffs, and last summer opened Driftwood.

Adrian Smith has been carving animals into stone since he was a teenager. It is a meditative process, which appeals to the artist, who sells his pieces out of his small gallery nearly hidden off Main street in Vineyard Haven.