Get ahead of the game and pick up some holiday gifts this weekend. Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center hosts its holiday sale on Sunday, Nov. 17 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Polly Hill Arboretum and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center are coming together to bring The Fruit Hunters to the screen on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the film center at the Tisbury Marketplace. This cinematic odyssey through the jungles of Borneo and the hills of Umbria, to name a few, follows an obsessed few determined to save rare and exotic fruit from becoming extinct through overdevelopment and agrobusiness concerns. Bill Pullman stars as himself.

Fern and Feather Camp at Felix Neck celebrates its 50th anniversary next year and to begin the party they are looking for a new logo design for the camp.

Join The Trustees of Reservations as they host a family duck event at Long Point Wildlife Refuge.

Roses are still blooming, orange leaves still line the streets. And yet the first snowfall of the season has arrived, swirling through the air and, in some spots, blanketing the still green lawns and sections of the quiet streets.

Preservation and stewardship are crucial themes in the next phase for the old Gay Head Light.

The national holiday dawned clear and cold with gusty winds. A parade begins at 10:30 this morning in Oak Bluffs. Schools, towns halls and government offices are closed today.

A showery evening should give way to partly sunny skies in the morning as Martha Vineyard honors its veterans. The festivities begin at 7:30 a.m. at the Oak Grove Cemetery in Vineyard Haven with the installation of the Avenue of Flags, followed by a parade in Oak Bluffs starting at 10:45 a.m.

The crusading writer, author and journalism professor who sued the federal government for keeping secret files on himself and his wife in the 1950s, died Friday in Chevy Chase, Md. Mr. Kimball, 98, had a summer home in Chilmark for more than 50 years, and lived in Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs year-round from 1994 to 2009.

Attorney General Martha Coakley, addressing a meeting of Martha’s Vineyard Democrats Saturday morning, said she feels confident about her chances to be elected the next governor.