Beginning Jan. 20, the National Alliance on Mental Illness will be offering a family-to-family course here on the Island designed to help family members better understand and support relatives with major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder or an anxiety disorder.

I have been following news stories about Stop & Shop’s efforts to build a new, larger store in their current Five Corners Vineyard Haven location.

The members of Dukes County are being denied medical coverage on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard due to an oversight of MassHealth politicians.

Once again, I’ve been reminded how lucky we are to live in such a caring and compassionate place. After suffering a bad fall at my Chilmark home, a 911 call brought the police and wonderful Tri Town EMTs to my rescue.

It has been another emotion-filled holiday season for the Family-to-Family Holiday Distribution Program.

We’re so tired, we’re so weary

And the weather’s dark and dreary.

But our hearts are full of cheer