We were blessed with another sunny, successful electronics disposal day here at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services.

Hardly a person is now alive on our fair and prosperous island who remembers the day when the Gazette made its first bow to the public and took its modest place in the periodicals of this section.

Last weekend Craig Miner began spray painting the side of the 1930s house that resides at 6 Water street in Vineyard Haven. The derelict building, sagging and sad, is situated directly across the street from the Vineyard Haven Steamship Terminal. What Mr. Miner will eventually create is anyone’s guess, including his own.

The idea for Arnie Reisman’s new play was hatched 10 years ago when he read a New York Times article about a couple living in a witness protection program in a gated Florida community. The result was Not Constantinople, a dark comedy that will have its world premiere next weekend at the Vineyard Playhouse.

Ali Berlow founded the Island Grown Initiative a decade ago, wrote The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse and was the founding editor and is still the co-publisher of Edible Vineyard. Her most recent book, The Food Activist’s Handbook: Big & Small Things You Can Do to Help Provide Fresh, Healthy Food for Your Community, was published earlier this month.

A group of writers recently landed on Martha’s Vineyard to commit the remainder of May to honing their craft. Nine writers will live together and work on their poems, novels and other writing projects for two weeks as part of the Noepe Center for Literary Arts writer’s residency program.

This weekend the 26th annual Family Planning Art Show transforms the Agricultural Hall into a community art gallery.

The Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha’s Vineyard is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Creative Living Award.

The cost of trash pickup may soon go up in Vineyard Haven. At the Tisbury selectmen’s meeting Tuesday the board took up a request for a rate increase from Bruno’s Rolloff Inc, the company that the town contracts with for curbside pickup of trash and recyclables.

This weekend the country celebrates Memorial Day, and the Vineyard steps up in style, too, in remembering those who fought and died for this country.