Low-fat is not part of the vocabulary at the Savory Pie Company.

“I’ve had people ask me if I had any low-fat and I look at them like you’ve got to be kidding me,” owner Dee Smith said at her Tea Lane Catering kitchen in Chilmark this week. “There’s a need for gluten free and we’re just starting with that, but there’s certainly no word like low-fat in our category of pies.”

Dust off your sneakers, sharpen your skates and get ready to burn off that eggnog. Or just round up the family and cheer on the hometown boys, girls, men and women of present and years past.

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There were no injuries and no damage following a brief collision between the freight ferry Katama and a Vineyard lobster boat on Wednesday afternoon, the Steamship Authority said in a statement.

In an e-mail to the Gazette Thursday morning, SSA general manager Wayne Lamson wrote:

The steamship Martha’s Vineyard hasn’t set sail from Woods Hole since 1956 but its steam whistle is still causing a headache for the Steamship Authority.

At their monthly meeting this week the boat line governers met in executive session to discuss whether to sue current SSA Capt. Bruce Malenfant to recover what may be the SS Martha’s Vineyard’s long-lost steam whistle. But the Malenfants believe it’s a case of mistaken identity.

Though the temperature might imply otherwise, Dec. 21 marks the first day of winter, as well as the shortest day of the year. Going forward, daylight will start to increase by mere seconds each day.

The Up-Island Regional School District committee voted on Monday to part ways with food service provider Chartwells at the end of the school year and instead will opt for its own meals program based at the West Tisbury school.

Want to see Edgartown’s first poet laureate in action? Steve Ewing, recently appointed to the post, will join a host of other Island poets for the Martha’s Vineyard Poetry Society’s Winter Solstice gathering on Wednesday, Dec. 21 at the Vineyard Haven Library. The reading will take place from 7 to 9 p.m.

A nine-month investigation into fraud at the Edgartown wastewater department came to a head on Monday when the Edgartown district court issued a criminal complaint against a septic hauler who repeatedly failed to properly record his deliveries at the town treatment plant. The investigation, conducted by the Cape and Islands district attorney’s office, as well as state and Edgartown police, also pointed to possible violations of the state ethics law by an unnamed town selectman and town employees.

All four traffic lanes on the Bourne Bridge have been reopened following a weeks-long steel repair project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has announced.

Steel repair work will continue below the road deck on the Bourne Bridge until the fall of 2012, resulting in occasional one-day lane restrictions during the next couple of weeks and through the fall of 2012.