The Christmas Eve candlelight service at the Community Baptist Church was conducted by Rev. Roger H. Spinney. Get well wishes to Rev. Ellen P. Tatreau, her husband Douglas and their daughter Elise. We will look forward to their return to the Vineyard in the New Year.

Leslie Floyd, Carol McManus and Zachary Frangos announce the formation of Portfolio Real Estate of Martha’s Vineyard, a boutique firm focused on providing advisory and full real estate services to Islanders and part-time residents.

Laura Jernegan, 22, of Edgartown, has been accepted into the Peace Corps and will depart for Vanuatu, an island in the South Pacific, on Jan. 23 to begin training as an information technology and English education volunteer.

The state Department of Agricultural Resources will allow comment until Feb. 18 on utility's plan to use herbicides to control vegetation under power lines.

Monika M. Knutsson and Bruce M. Kogut purchased 17 Tiasquam Ridge Road in Chilmark for $1,475,000 on Dec. 19.

If selfie was the word of 2013, what will 2014 bring?

Where better to find out than on Martha’s Vineyard.

The Harbor View hosts its annual big bash on Tuesday night, with the Sultans of Swing and the Mike Benjamin Band. Party-only tickets are sold out but packages with lodging are still available. Call 508-627-3761.

Otherwise grab a blanket and a bottle of bubbly and catch the fireworks over Edgartown Harbor at midnight.

The Benjamin Fletcher Mayhew house, circa 1786, is listed in the Chilmark historic house registry. The four-bedroom house and guest house sit on over four acres with deeded access to a north shore beach.

A Vineyard Haven resident pitches a plan to Island selectmen to develop a rural roads manual. Other places have done it successfully, including Nantucket.

A Christmas story by the late Dorothy West, an Oak Bluffs writer and last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance.

Shakespeare for the Masses is back and they are bringing Henry V with them. The Young prince Henry of Henry IV has now matured into a man, with manly desires — thus the decision to conquer France. “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”

Lines like that make going to war sound almost cozy.

The play usually runs a few hours, but a Shakespeare for the Masses production always rolls in at just under an hour. They are always free, too. Yes, free, the better to spread the words of the master and send us all “Once more into the breach, dear friends...”