At a meeting Tuesday, the Oak Bluffs select board settled on Brian Smith as the town’s newest representative to the MVC.

The much-debated article to create a Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank will go on the annual town meeting warrant Oak Bluffs, after a unanimous vote by the select board Tuesday night.

Anna Poblocka and Piotr Kornalski, of Oak Bluffs, announce the birth of a son, Jacob Alex Kornalski, born on Jan. 5.

Marisa and Garrett Burt, of Oak Bluffs, , announce the birth of a daughter, Cleo Wilhelmina Burt, born on Jan. 9.

The 62nd annual Christmas Bird Count was held on Jan. 2, and as reported last week the weather was not bad, nor was it good, for finding birds.

Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the trails. (Cue the Jaws soundtrack.)  

With Covid-19 now racing through the Vineyard community, boards of health issued a public health message Tuesday urging Islanders to take steps to protect themselves from infection.

The pioneering law professor and voting rights activist who died Jan. 7 had long family ties to the Vineyard, where she had owned a home.

Brigitte Cornand, longtime deputy director of West Tisbury’s Dumptique, called recently from France, where she now lives, with New Year’s greetings for all her Vineyard friends.

With audiences confined by winter weather and the resurgent Covid pandemic, the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse could hardly have chosen a better time for its weeklong theatre festival.