The 21st annual Pat West gaff-rig and schooner race will take place tomorrow. The first gun is at 10:30 a.m. The start is right off Eastville Beach and East Chop. Sailors will race their craft to West Chop and then go to a buoy off Edgartown and then race back. The total length of the race course is about 15 miles.

Jim Gordon recalled the day 16 years ago when he took a leap and volunteered to be a Big Brother.

“His eyes got me. They showed me four or five pictures of kids and wanted me to take the kid who’d been waiting the longest, but he was the one. It was like looking at myself at his age — the pain and loneliness,” he said.

Mr. Gordon, voted by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martha’s Vineyard as its first man of the year in 1997, feels more blessed by a relationship with an eight-year-old African American kid than by accolades.

Greening your company can contribute to the environment, but as the Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network will show on Sept. 23, it also can boost your bottom line.

A roundtable discussion called Living Green! Saving Green! is set for 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Baylies Room in the Old Whaling Church. The panel will discuss entrepreneurial opportunities in the green marketplace and give tips to make even the smallest office environmentally friendly — while making money doing it.

An 86-year-old Pennsylvania man parking his car along Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs drove into the front of Mocha Mott’s coffee shop just before 3 p.m. on Monday. Although no one was seriously injured, the crash shattered the coffee shop’s plate glass window and clogged traffic for approximately 30 minutes.

In 2010, Tisbury is due to get a new ambulance. But there is nowhere to put it. Nor is there anywhere to put a new fire engine in 2012, when the old one will have completed 25 years of service.

One fire truck and a second ambulance already must be parked away from the main depots downtown. One current fire truck clears the station doorway by two inches when fully loaded.

When there is a major fire alarm, a horn blares at the station, not to summon firefighters but to tell those illegally parked out front to move their vehicles.

The West Tisbury selectmen on Wednesday gave an emphatic thumbs-down to a plan now under consideration by the Martha’s Vineyard Airport commission to allow an advertising company to sell space in the airport terminal and along the tarmac that would be visible to arriving passengers.

On Tuesday at noon it was quiet at the polls in Edgartown. The midmorning rush was over and the lunch rush (the town clerk wondered if there would be one) had yet to begin. Gray clouds scudded across a September sky. A small crowd of elderly tourists spilled out of a bus onto Church street. Eric T. Turkington ducked inside the Baylies Room at the Old Whaling Church. A lone voter arrived and headed for the empty booths, paper ballot in hand. He looked up and spotted the longtime Cape and Islands state representative.

Community Supported Agriculture, the popular organic Island vegetable cooperative at Whippoorwill Farm, is on the rocks again, this time because of a business plan that has failed.

The Oak Bluffs historical commission on Wednesday responded to allegations that a cottage in the federally protected Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association may have been torn down and partially expanded earlier this summer, possibly in violation of a town bylaw strictly regulating the demolition of historical structures.

The future of the Home Port is in the hands of Chilmark voters who will decide whether to approve town purchase of the 70-year-old restaurant and surrounding property at a special town meeting Monday.

Voters face at least two choices: according to the first article on the warrant if the town buys the Home Port for $2 million, the restaurant will be taken down to make way for a park area, a site for additional public parking and rest room facilities and public access to the waterfront.