The following timeline of events of the Rockland Trust bank robbery on Thursday, Nov. 17 was pieced together from federal and state affidavits filed in court.

The West Tisbury select board awarded a $900,000 contract to Falmouth-based Keenan + Kenny Architects.

Thanks to a grant of over $2.5 million spread out over 10 years, Harbor Homes of Martha’s Vineyard is in the market for a permanent emergency shelter to better serve the Island’s homeless population.

Russia and the U.S. exchanged Brittney Griner for arms dealer Viktor Bout Thursday. But conspicuously absent from the deal was Paul Whelan, the brother of an Island artist, who remains in Russia on espionage charges.

The old farmhouse has a new front door. Actually only the wood storm door is new — made by a friend who is a skilled finish carpenter.

The recent article in the Gazette describing the newly proposed Massachusetts septic and sewage regulations has particular relevance to controversies on Martha’s Vineyard.

On Thanksgiving day I was off-Island visiting family in America. I had arranged for a friend of mine and his caregiver to have Thanksgiving dinner delivered.

As a board member of Hospice and Palliative Care of Marthas’s Vineyard, I would like to thank the Gazette editors for presenting such a comprehensive overview of our activities.

It is hard to imagine anyone more deserving of receiving the Vineyard Village’s Spirit of the Vineyard award than Paddy Moore.

From the Dec. 10, 1965 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Already the feeling of Christmas is in the air.