We have had a tough January this year with two snowstorms. Last week’s storm dumped eight inches of the white stuff and the temperature has been below normal.

Charles Russell Twist purchased 32 Abels Neck Road in Chilmark from Kristen Lasker, Helen Marie Lasker, Est., and Toy Lasker for $1,025,000 on Jan. 23.

Meghan Brown of Oak Bluffs and Erica Bartlett of Vineyard Haven were named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

Caleb Gray of Vineyard Haven and Sheila McHugh of Edgartown were named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at Roger Williams University.

A reception for the new director of student support services for Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools, Philip Campbell, is scheduled for 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

If you’re looking for a brush-up on your organizational skills, you may want to attend the workshop with Kim D’Arcy on Wednesday, Feb. 5. If sibling rivalry is a challenge in your life, you can try the workshop with Jeanine Fitzgerald on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

Boaz Kirschenbaum is turning 40 and doing it in public, with music, too, on Saturday, Feb. 1, beginning at 6 p.m. Well-wishers who will be bringing their instruments and voices to the Katharine Cornell Theatre include Daytrippers, Good Night Louise, Flying Elbows, Jellybone Rivers and Nina Violet.

Travel up-Island nearly any night of the week and you’ll find folks engaged in all types of artistic expression at the Pathways Gathering Space at the Chilmark Tavern.

Jessica Seeman and Andrew Dubno of New York city announce the birth of a daughter, Ava Louise Dubno, born on Jan. 8 at home.

Brenna Parsons Westover and Jeffrey Westover of Norwood announce the birth of a daughter, Ava Metell Westover, born on Dec. 22, 2013 at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital.