Craig Colorusso is, in his own words, “just a rocker.” His arsenal includes a guitar and a bass clarinet; he’s toured the country with various bands, playing in various capacities.

The 21st annual Vineyard CROP Walk takes place on Sunday, Oct. 16. The walk, as always, is sponsored by Church World Service, an international charity group, in response to worldwide hunger.

The walk begins at St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Vineyard Haven at 2 p.m., and progresses to Trinity United Methodist Church in the campground in Oak Bluffs, and back again. Walkers may participate in all or some of the walk. Everyone is asked to report at 1:40 p.m. for registration.

Please Adopt Us

One day last April 91 Islanders visited the Island Food Pantry. Each person collected their allotted three bags of donated food, which meant 273 bags were distributed in a single day. It was a record in the pantry’s 30-year history.

That number is expected to climb in the coming year, pantry director Armen Hanjian said this week.

Each week for the past 10 years, Paul Karasik completes and sends about 10 cartoons to The New Yorker magazine. For those at home doing the math, that’s around 5,000 cartoons, give or take.

Beer, Wine Forum

West Tisbury selectmen will host a public forum on Nov. 2 on the possible sale of beer and wine in town restaurants. The forum will be at 5 p.m. at Howes House. The town voted last spring to petition the state legislature for a home rule amendment to authorize a ballot question on the issue, which will appear on the April town meeting ballot.

Bail Set in Rape Case

Cash bail was set at $60,000 last Friday for a Vineyard Haven man charged with assaulting his wife and raping a teenage girl in July.

Dean’s List

Babson College announces the following local resident qualified for the spring semester Dean’s List, which recognizes outstanding student scholarship: Kendall Chaves, a student in the Class of 2012, of West Tisbury.

The owner of Preventive Medicine Associates Inc., whose office in Vineyard Haven closed last month, pleaded not guilty yesterday to all charges alleging he engaged in a kickback scheme that fraudulently billed MassHealth nearly $3.8 million.

The Vineyard Gazette’s coverage of the Menemsha fire earned the newspaper a Publick Occurrences Award this week from the New England Newspaper and Press Association.

The award, which honors outstanding journalism, was announced Thursday at NENPA’s fall conference in Natick. About 150 publishers, editors and reporters from throughout New England attended the awards ceremony. Gazette publisher Jane Seagrave accepted the award on behalf of the Gazette’s news staff.