The Holiday Gift Show at Featherstone Center for the Arts is part art exhibit, part artist market — and all holiday cheer.

A legal opinion, written to clarify the legitimacy of anonymous cash donations to Island schools, instead sowed more dissension at this week’s meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School committee.

The All-Island school committee voted unanimously last week to renew Dr. Richard Smith’s contract as Martha’s Vineyard superintendent of schools.

In a letter sent to the board Monday, Trustees attorney Dylan Sanders reiterated the organization’s longstanding position that the Dike Bridge is not under Trustees’ ownership, and therefore it is not responsible for funding any repairs.

The annual Veterans Day parade kicks off at 10:45 a.m. Saturday from Nancy’s Restaurant on Lake avenue and winds its way up to Ocean Park. There, a ceremony honoring the country’s veterans will begin at 11 a.m.

The Up-Island Council on Aging board met to discuss planning and priorities Monday, the first in-person meeting since the body was reconstituted following a review of the board’s internal bylaws. High on the list will be to find a replacement for director Joyce Albertine.

A new neighborhood of 100 apartments for low to moderate income Islanders, served by four stores with employee housing, has been proposed for eight acres on Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road in Oak Bluffs, just east of the future Southern Tier affordable housing complex.

Thomas Melone, who owns a home on the Vineyard and is the president of a solar energy company, filed a legal challenge to the offshore wind energy project's federal approvals in appeals court Monday.

A signed language discussion with ASL interpreters takes place Wednesday, Nov. 8 at the Oak Bluffs Library.

My extended family takes pride in our enduring ties to the Vineyard and the Chappaquiddick community.