It's school vacation week, which sets the dial to serious quiet mode around the Island. But there is still plenty to do for those who remain.

For its latest community art show and sale, titled Love Laugh Leap Live!, Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs has cast a wide net and pulled in a brimming catch.

The Island Grown board of directors this week announced that senior director of programs Noli Taylor will become executive director of programs and outreach, with managing director Michelle Gittlen the executive director of operations.

At an Aquinnah select board meeting Tuesday, Wenonah Madison, president of the Aquinnah Land Initiative, which announced plans to purchase the iconic restaurant last year, said she hopes to have it back in operation this season.

We are delighted to report that Jerry, the artistically-marked black and white cat, has found his forever home.

My loyal readers know that I revel in the amount of artists, writers and musicians who live here on Martha's Vineyard.

It felt like an average winter morning and it seemed like the cancellation of school might have been all for naught, but that changed mid-morning.

Reminiscing about sights that we had gotten used to seeing at the Chappy Ferry and won't be seeing again.

It's for a short period of time that I enjoy snow.

I was curious about how many species have been reported in this column so far this year.