With a grant from Affordable Care Act funding, the Vineyard’s rural health care clinic — the first and only in the state — will become a federally qualified health care center.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $362,642 for the business week ending on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. The land bank receives its funds from a two per cent fee charged on many Vineyard real estate transactions.

Nicholas H. Gross, formerly of West Tisbury, has been hired by the Boston engineering consulting firm Howard/Stein-Hudson Associates.

Tisbury selectmen moved closer to a permanent payment solution for the Park and Ride lot this week. After several months of study, including overnight parking surveys, town administrator Jay Grande and administrative secretary Hilary Conklin proposed implementing a pay-as-you-leave system for the lot.

While the state ultimately decides who can open a medical marijuana dispensary in Dukes County, Oak Bluffs voters will have the chance Tuesday to take part of that permitting into their own hands.

At a special town meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday evening at the Oak Bluffs school, town voters will decide to adopt or reject a bylaw regulating the sale of medical marijuana in town.

The Patrick administration announced a program late last week to make small business loans available to fishermen who have been hurt by the failure of the groundfishing industry.

Like September, October was a dry month. Total rainfall for October was .70 inches, more than twice the rainfall of September (.31 inches), but still significantly less than what the Vineyard usually gets. Normal average rainfall for October is 3.39 inches.

After nearly a quarter century of doing business in downtown Edgartown, Town Provisions — now called MV Wine & Spirits — has reopened for business near the airport.

As they entered the Serving Hands Food Distribution late last week, Islanders were confronted with a notice: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, commonly known as food stamps, were being cut.

After reading Tom Dunlop’s interesting story in last Friday’s Gazette about the early post-war means of getting to and from the Vineyard by boat, I was transported back to my own experience in getting here in 1946 and 1947.