Last year, the homeless count in Dukes County found 119 homeless people, the highest in recent memory. But this year the annual measurement of the homeless population on a single night in January came and went with no count recorded.

This Friday, Feb. 28, Serving Hands food distribution begins at 2 p.m. with doors opening at 1:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church parish house in Vineyard Haven.

The John Luce house on Pine street in Vineyard Haven is a rare post-bellum gem occupied by the same family for some 150 years. Soon it will have new owners.

Twelve Martha's Vineyard students won prizes at Falmouth Academy's annual science fair where more than 170 students in grades 7 to 12 presented projects to volunteer judges.

The Tisbury School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2013-2014 academic year.

Featherstone Center for the Arts offers a different kind of ladies night on the first Monday of the month. Nancy Blank will bring out the still-life painter in you on March 1 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Pebble Gallery at Featherstone.

Reading specialist Kathleen Farrell will lead a free seven-session workshop for kindergarten students at the Edgartown library from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturdays beginning March 8.

Back by popular demand, decoy carver Chris Murphy leads a workshop in carving duck decoys at the Martha's Vineyard Museum library in Edgartown, on Saturday, March 8, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Monday March 17 is Daffodil Day. Proceeds from flowers purchased will go to the Martha's Vineyard Cancer Support Group.

The Martha's Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $48,440 for the business week ending on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.