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.

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.

In honor of Veterans Day, the Gazette has excerpted oral history interviews conducted by Linsey Lee as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s exhibit Those Who Serve: Martha’s Vineyard and WWII. Here, interviews with Jane Slater, Nelson Bryant, Curtis Jones and James McLaurin.

The Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard has lost one of its own.

Congratulations to Island libraries. The Library Journal is out with its annual ratings and both the Vineyard Haven and West Tisbury libraries are ranked among the best in the country.

A group of about 15 volunteers gather at the edge of the peach orchard just past the farmstand parking lot of Morning Glory Farm. Some stomp their feet to ward off the early morning chill. Jamie O’Gorman hands one volunteer a T-shirt.