Labor Day is on Monday and marks the end of the high summer season. All municipal buildings and the post offices will be closed. The VTA buses begin their fall schedule on Tuesday and the SSA schedule changes on Friday.

The Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard is accepting applications for its fall grant cycle.

Harbor View Hotel has named Andrew Bartlett as its new general manager. He will oversee all operations of the 124-year-old hotel.

Alicia L. Oliveira, an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadet at Providence College, has graduated from the leader development and assessment course at Fort Knox, Ky.

Richard Limber describes his artistic journey as beginning “with my mother’s effusive praise.” Always a good place to start.

Philip Weinstein, a literature professor at Swarthmore College, taught a six-part course on Faulkner last fall. Coming up it's Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Take 10 artists and three Island locations, give them three weeks to work their magic, then shake twice, stir once, add a spritz of lemon and what do you have? A Plein-Air Summer Breeze.

A common theme in my columns this summer has been East Chop volunteers. As the summer draws to a close, I begin to think of our winter community. They are an impressive group.

Katherine Anne Smith of Chilmark was named to the spring 2014 dean’s list at Simmons College in Boston.

The second annual Friends of the Edgartown Library 5K run will take place on Monday, Sept. 1. The event is open to walkers or runners.