The remnants of Hurricane Noel lashed the Island this past Saturday, bringing down power lines, sinking at least two boats and tossing several others ashore. Although no injuries were linked to the storm, a number of Vineyard homes were without electricity for well into Sunday. Steamship Authority ferry service to the Vineyard shut down at noon Saturday and didn’t resume until Sunday morning.

Health Talk

An afternoon conversation to introduce a new model of integrative health consultation on the Vineyard will be offered by Soundhealth Integrative Medicine on Sunday, Nov. 11 from 3 to 4 p.m. at Che’s Lounge on Main street in Vineyard Haven. More information is available by calling 508-693-2833.

Jo Ann Murphy last weekend had a powerful perspective on the dramatically changing role of women in the U.S. military.

The Dukes County veterans agent was in Washington, D.C., for the 10th anniversary of Women in Military Service of America, joining 50 other women veterans from New England and several thousand more from the rest of the country.

The Martha's Vineyard Commission last week unanimously agreed to review the Joseph G. Moujabber garage along the North Bluff in Oak Bluffs as a development of regional impact (DRI), setting the stage for the most comprehensive review of the controversial project to date.

Commissioners agreed that because the three-story building potentially affects views from one of the main gateways to the Island, it warranted a full DRI review.

The newly created Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank will officially open for business following Veterans Day weekend, as a result of the merger of the Martha’s Vineyard Cooperative Bank and Dukes County Savings Bank.

Preliminary plans for converting part of the old Edgartown School to a performing arts center were presented to Edgartown selectmen by the school reuse committee on Monday.

Committee co-chairmen Stuart Fuller and James Cisek detailed plans to convert the old gymnasium and cafeteria into a theatre space, along the lines of Tisbury’s Katharine Cornell Theatre. The group plans to seek $64,000 in community preservation act funding for initial design work and expects final building costs to reach $500,000.

Aquinnah’s oldest road will be repaired by winter and the town may sport a new tour bus line next summer.

Selectmen last week awarded $14,350 to Deca Inc. of Vineyard Haven to repair an unpaved stretch of Old South Road, the town’s oldest byway dating back to the 1870s.

The Vineyard legislative liaison, a former Falmouth selectman and the speaker of the Barnstable County assembly of delegates are finalists for county manager here.

Russell Smith of Aquinnah, Troy Clarkson of North Falmouth and Thomas Bernardo of West Chatham will be interviewed by the Dukes County Commission tomorrow in the county administration building. The interviews begin at 9 a.m. and are open to the public.

Abel’s Hill cemetery is a place where people who like to keep tabs on their neighbors can do just that — for eternity, as they rest among them. From the gravestones off South Road in Chilmark you can hear the hum of cars speeding down-Island to the grocery store or up for a day at the beach. From the plot nearest the road, on tiptoe, you can just see who is in those cars. It’s a quiet cemetery, but graceful.

Island residents who stayed with their television sets on Sunday night past the Patriots and into Sunday Night Football were hoping to see the promised NBC coverage of the Island high school football team. It has been rescheduled for Nov. 18 and Nov. 25. Earlier schedules had the segment airing on Nov. 4 and Nov. 11.