Talented folks at the Federated Church on South Summer street in Edgartown are ready to entertain on Saturday, Jan. 25, when they present their All Church Cabaret.

The Trustees of Reservations invite you to explore some of the unique properties around Martha’s Vineyard with a series of winter walks.

As Aboveground Records prepares to close its doors on Saturday, owner Mike Barnes declares that this week is all about hanging out. “This week isn’t about commerce, it’s about friendship," he said on Sunday afternoon.

Two Oak Bluffs men survived an 800-foot avalanche slide over the weekend while hiking on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, park officials confirmed Monday morning. Due to poor visibility, Conor Lodge and Adam Herman “unknowingly” took the wrong path to Tuckerman Ravine.

A Vineyard tradition during the darkest and coldest months of the year, churches from around the Island take turns providing community suppers at which all are always welcome, and the food is free.

At 4:30 a.m. on Saturday the day's newspapers arrived on the Quickwater, better known as the Patriot Boat. So did boxes of bagels bound for Espresso Love and Mocha Motts after being boiled to perfection at Cape Cod Bagel in Falmouth.

On Friday night Mocha Mott's in Vineyard Haven began hosting what is to be an ongoing series of musical coffeehouse events. “Long live Mocha Mott’s music!” Adam Lipsky said after playing his first set of jazz. “I hope this continues for years.”

This weekend, at the annual alumni hockey games, it was once again time for the old (and not so old) guard to dust off their skates and once again hit the ice at the Martha's Vineyard Arena.

Venus is so close at the moment that you might be able to see the horns, also called cusps. But in the nights ahead, Venus will appear lower in the western sky. Soon Venus will overtake the Earth in its race around the sun. When it does, on January 11, the planet will thereafter reappear in the morning sky.

Venus is currently 26 million miles away. No planet gets closer to the earth than Venus. Consider that the Sun is 93 million miles away.

Saturn and Moon

It was a year punctuated by visits from a president and right whales, the arrival of a roundabout and a reality television crew. Pieces of the past were restored and given new life while other parts of the Island changed irrevocably.