The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries are playing the Katharine Cornell Theatre this Thursday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.m. The event marks the beginning of the band’s east cost tour.

The band consists of Elisha Wiesner, Bob Weston and Chris Brokaw. Their latest record is Mass. Grave released on October on Kiam Records.

Tickets are $5, available at the door.

For more information, visit marthasvineyardferries.bandcamp.com.

The Ryan Mone Memorial hockey tournament is this weekend, running from Friday through Sunday. In addition to hockey games all weekend, there will be free public skating sponsored by Mone Insurance on Saturday night from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.

It’s January on the Vineyard, the time of year when the Island goes gray and dark, and really cold, too. Not the season one thinks about taking a dip in the ocean. But we are speaking now of this world, the one inhabited by those of us still alive and susceptible to the laws of nature.

The Nauset Garden Club is accepting applications for two $5,000 scholarships for the 2014-2015 academic year. Students must be full-time residents of Cape Cod or the Islands and entering their junior or senior year or enrolled in a graduate program of an accredited college or university.

Some snowstorm last week. It seems all took the forecast seriously.

Steven James, 53, of Marshfield, and a partner died after going on a duck hunt early Tuesday morning. A third man was rescued by the Coast Guard and hospitalized with hypothermia.

Hardy bay scallopers were grounded, plumbers were on 24-hour call and hardware stores were doing a brisk business in space heaters, hand and foot warmers as the Vineyard was gripped by bitter cold along with the rest of the East Coast early this week.

What would Jennie Athearn think of the recent real estate listing at Big Homer's Pond? Born in 1850, Jennie was one of the last of the Tisbury Pond people in this place that was a 19th century family compound for the Athearns.

Despite hours of debate and five drafts of an operating budget, the up-Island regional school committee has yet to agree on a financial plan for 2015. Now under discussion is a draft that asks for an increase of 8.09 per cent, $752,000 more than last year.

A Rhode Island company was the low bidder on a a $7.3 million contract for a new library. And questions surfaced again about the Edgartown Library Foundation.