The future of the Cape Wind project on Horseshoe Shoal was thrown into uncertainty this week when National Grid and NStar announced they had terminated their contracts to buy power from the private wind developer.

The first baby of the new year was born Monday morning at Martha's Vineyard Hospital.

Gabriel Cardoso Oliveira weighed seven pounds at birth. He was welcomed by parents Karlla and Douglas Oliveira of Oak Bluffs and big brother Guilherme.

Oak Bluffs School principal Richard Smith and assistant superintendent Matthew D’Andrea have been named as finalists in the search for the next superintendent. They will both be interviewed by the all-Island school committee this week; interviews are open to the public.

The Christmas Bird Count was a lackluster event this year. All the teams had to work hard to find birds. The total is 121 species.

A project to rebuild the two jetties at Menemsha harbor is expected to begin in the next two weeks, while a more controversial project to dredge the channel to Menemsha Pond has been delayed until next fall.

More than 31 acres at Cedar Tree Neck have been donated to the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation by members of the Hough family. The land will be called the George A. Hough preserve.

Sail Martha’s Vineyard features Megan Carroll, a research engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, at its first winter 2015 dinner-lecture series at the Black Dog Tavern.

The Martha’s Vineyard chapter of the NAACP hosts its annual celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday, Jan. 18, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Portuguese-American Club in Oak Bluffs.

Poet Fan Ogilvie leads a discussion series on How Poetry Does What It Does at the West Tisbury library.

Jack Schimmelman, executive producer and director of the opera-in-progress, 1854, will lead a community discussion focusing on issues that inspire his folk opera.