What brought voters to the polls on Martha’s Vineyard in eye-popping numbers on election day?

Next week Oak Bluffs voters will be asked to approve an extra $1.3 million to do what residents have already said they want.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $421,215.24 for the business week ending on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018.

Connect to End Violence has been named the beneficiary of the Vineyard Gazette’s annual holiday subscription promotion.

Oak Bluffs voters will gather for a special town meeting tonight to vote on two major spending issues. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the Oak Bluffs School.

It looks as if our dog days have ended for now. Bessie, the yellow Lab, moved on to her forever home last week.

Don Groover was 13 years old when musical lightning struck.

RICHARD LEWIS TAYLOR

(rtaylor@mvgazette.com)

The passing of Lucy Durr Hackney was shared with me by her dear friend Charlayne Hunter Gault. I imagine that among other things their friendship was cemented by their keen intelligence and their love of all things Vineyard, by the importance of women advancing in the world and much more. Friends bond on a variety of axis points, some not so obvious.

A very low tide revealed a sandbar at the end of Washque Avenue, reshaping the familiar landscape into something new as shellfisherman dug for clams in the fading light.

The leaves are falling, the colors are changing and it is getting cooler.