In remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the NAACP of Martha’s Vineyard and the Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center will host gatherings.

Ahead of a hearing regarding the Affordable Homes Act at the Massachusetts State House on Jan. 18, the Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank is calling upon all Islanders to submit written testimony to the joint committee on housing in support of the housing bank and local option transfer fee.

From the Jan. 9, 1987 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The local radio station began to jabber about extras and speaking parts for “here-we-go-again-Jaws.”

From 1963: The Rev. Henry L. Bird, rector of the Episcopal parish on Martha’s Vineyard, is with a group of ten clergymen this week in Williamston, N. C., engaged in non-violent action.

Charlie Shipway’s sailing journey began at the long-running Menemsha Pond Races, led to the Barcelona Olympics, and then returned to the Vineyard and the Sunfish craft he first learned on.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cape Cod and the Islands will celebrate National Mentoring Month with a party at the Barn Bowl and Bistro on Saturday, Jan. 20 from noon to 2 p.m.

Elijah Berlow pulled into Nashville hungry. But like the Band’s Levon Helm, it was as much for musical sustenance as it was food.

The Oak Bluffs select board announced Tuesday that this year’s annual town meeting will be on Tuesday, April 9 at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Performing Arts Center. A time has not been set.

Plans for a new preschool building at the Vineyard Montessori School will come before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission early next month.

On Thursday, Jan. 11, the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School will have a two-hour delayed opening.