I have always been interested in current events except when it comes to electrical work. That’s because I am afraid a current will zap me in the event I tried to perform some mundane task like replacing a fuse, in which case I would either be eulogized with the words “ashes to ashes” or, even worse, get hit with a whopper of an electric bill.

So I was pleasantly surprised — but not shocked — when I recently passed a test from an electrician who showed me how to do simple repairs without burning the house down.

Student journalists from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School picked up the highest achievement award in scholastic editing and publishing from the New England Scholastic Press Association at its annual convention in Boston on April 30.

The honor acknowledged all the newspapers the students published during the 2009-2010 school year.

“We rocked it!” said junior and co-editor in chief Naomi Pallas, when she heard the news about the accolades.

Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal Stephen Nixon announces the honor roll for the second quarter of the 2009-2010 academic year.

Grade 12 high honors go to: Max Conley, Matthew Fisher, Anna Hayes, Shaelah Huntington, Abigail Larsen, Tessa Permar, Meghan Pettit, Hayley Pierce and Julie Pringle.

Grade 11 high honors go to: Megan Dreyer, Jesse Fogg, Tova Katzman, Jessica Kelleher, Hudson Klebs, Jill McHugh, Alicia Oliveira, Naomi Pallas and Amelia Pennington.

Walls and tables lining the hallways of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School were filled with artwork Wednesday night, as Island art lovers came out in force to admire the paintings, drawings, and sculpture put out by the talented student body for this year’s Evening of the Arts.

Tony’s Market, a grocery store in business at the same location in Oak Bluffs since 1877, has promoted store manager Kelly Hill to vice president, chief of operations. She also was elected a director of the company. Mrs. Hill has worked continuously at Tony’s since April, 1995 and has been its store manager since September, 2001. Previously the store has been managed only by its owners, the members of various families during its 133-year history.

Kelly lives in Oak Bluffs with her husband, David Hill, and two children.

The family of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, made up of staff and volunteers, took a moment out of a busy spring to honor some of their own. At the Mediterranean restaurant in Oak Bluffs on Monday afternoon, more than 130 gathered to share in fellowship, to honor those whose hard work has helped the organization through almost 50 years of community work.

The steamer Nobska is long gone, but now she has been preserved as a sculpture, at once beautiful and functional, to help ferry captains know which way the wind is blowing.

A copper weather vane made in the image of the Nobska sits high atop the new Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority terminal, which had its grand opening this week.

The Nobska ran from 1925 until 1973.

He is a pilot who became the owner of an airline that became one of the best small business success stories in the country. And now Dan Wolf, the owner of Cape Air, has decided to add politics to his CV. Mr. Wolf has announced he will run for the Cape and Islands seat in the Massachusetts senate that Rob O’Leary will vacate this year, when he makes his own bid for the seat in U.S. Congress that will be vacated by Rep. William Delahunt, who is stepping down.

Wait a minute, who’s on first?

Already the new YMCA building on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road fits right in with the neighborhood, flanked by the Martha’s Vineyard Arena on one side, Martha’s Vineyard Community Services and the skate park on the other side, and the regional high school across the road.

And if your vision of a YMCA is rooted in past memories of dank, mostly windowless, poorly heated concrete buildings, look again. The Vineyard’s new YMCA is a marvel of open space and sunlight.

Beginning this year, under a new federal law, recreational saltwater fishermen are required either to have a saltwater license or to have registered with their state. In Massachusetts, where a law requiring a license will take effect next year, fishermen are supposed to register.

But very few have.