This annual Martha's Vineyard CROP Walk will begin on Oct. 1 and run though Oct. 18. The distance can be whatever anyone wants it to be, the miles adding up over the three-week period.

Oak Bluffs town employees are gearing up for a move into temporary work trailers as the long-awaited town hall renovation project is set to begin early next month.

When deer hunting season on Martha’s Vineyard begins Oct. 5, so will the venison donation program. Coordinated by Island Grown Initiative, the agricultural society and the tick-borne illness prevention program, the system allows hunters to donate surplus meat that will go to feed hungry Islanders.

Martha’s Vineyard Hospital leaders urged Vineyarders to not postpone care and to schedule flu shots as the fall begins, preparing for the unknown months that lie ahead.

The up-Island school committee heard updates early this week on plans for alternative learning spaces at the Chilmark and West Tisbury schools.

With Covid-19 case numbers staying low throughout the commonwealth, Gov. Charlie Baker said restaurants could seat up to 10 people at a table, use bar spaces for seating.