Community
Island places of worship warm up the faith-filled season with special events this weekend.
Every seat at the three long tables in the culinary arts dining room was taken during lunch on Tuesday, as students and teachers sat down for the fifth annual Brazilian American Friendship Lunch.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will sponsor a free educational course for families of people diagnosed with a serious mental illness. It begins Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 6:30 p.m.
Steve V. Purcell sold Larry’s Tackle Shop to Peter and Melissa Sliwkowski of Chappaquiddick. Mr. Purcell has owned the store since 2008, but worked there for nearly two decades before that.
Vineyard Village at Home models an innovative concept for seniors begun on Beacon Hill. The program provides services at home through a virtual village of volunteers.
Most Fridays, Kate Warner can be found in her West Tisbury kitchen. Even in early December, the room is hot; sun streams in through tall windows and inside two knee-level ovens, bread is baking. On a recent Friday Ms. Warner wore a rainbow-striped apron when she baked three organic breads from scratch: ciabatta, multigrain and sweet potato.