A DJ will spin the records for middle schoolers at Alex’s Place at the YMCA on Friday, Jan. 9, from 7 to 10 p.m. at a dance party especially for students in grades sixth through eighth.

The Shabbat service at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Friday, Jan. 16, at 5:30 p.m. will pay homage to the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his friend and colleague Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Comic books have their place, even at the library. If you’re nine or older, join Daniel Cooney at the West Tisbury library on Wednesday, Jan. 14.

Author Demaris Wehr discusses her new book, Making It Through: Bosnian Survivors Telling Stories of Truth, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven library.

It’s like mother, like son when Willy Mason and Jemima James flex their musical muscles on stage at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse on Thursday, Jan. 8.

Islanders are speaking out against a set of rate hikes which take effect this week at the Steamship Authority. An online petition had collected almost 2,400 signatures by Thursday morning.

Karlla Oliveira and Douglas Oliveira of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Gabriel Cordoso Oliveira, born on Jan. 5 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Hot dog, I found the perfect pup! This dog won’t hunt. It also won’t shed, drool or bark, and never has to be taken out for a walk. Sundogs live in the sky.

Kenon Veno of Edgartown was named to the fall 2014 dean’s list at Keene State College in Keene, N.H.

The Martha’s Vineyard Film Center opens its lobby to display Island artists’ work again in 2015.