To provide food, warmth and community during the long Vineyard winter, faith communities around the Island are once again offering free community suppers.

The WIMP comedy improv troupe is home on winter school break and are doing a one-night-only Vineyard performance on Saturday, Jan. 10.

The January meeting of Neighborhood Convention will be held at the Federated Church, 45 South Summer street, Edgartown, on Tuesday, Jan. 6, beginning at 11 a.m.

Thanks to a grant from the MV Local Cultural Council to Adult and Community Education of MV (ACE MV), there will be scholarship funds available for students enrolled in arts, education, and social justice.

Renee Clermont and David Parent of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Nicholas Robert Parent, born on Dec. 28 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Marshall Highet's love of writing and reading came early. Both of her grandmothers were writers. Her paternal grandmother was Helen MacInnes, the popular Scottish writer of espionage books, who died when Ms. Highet was only eight.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $104,584.80 for the business week ending on Friday, Dec. 26, 2014.

Joseph M. Gelormini and Lisa C. Gelormini purchased 17 Brushy Lane in Edgartown from Theresa White and Theresa E. White for $637,000 on Dec. 22.

John G. Early, a longtime West Tisbury selectman and volunteer on many committees and organizations across the Island, has been honored with the Spirit of the Vineyard award. The community room at the West Tisbury Library was overflowing as friends and supporters listened to one speaker after another praise Mr. Early.

The roots of Chicken Alley in Vineyard Haven, otherwise known as Lagoon Pond Road, go back to the days when chickens and pigs mingled on dirt roads with dirty-kneed children on their way to go fishing.