The Martha’s Vineyard Sharks are in the midst of an off-season shakeup as the organization works to put its books into the black. General manager Jerry Murphy has resigned.

He is an educator, fisherman, shellfisherman, sports fan, son, husband and father. The trappings of John Custer’s third-floor office in the Tisbury School, where he has been principal for four years, say as much.

Hans-Jürgen Melderis hails from Hamburg, Germany, and on Monday he presented a program entitled Other Life in the Universe? On NASA’s Discovery of Extra Solar Earth-like Planets in the Goldilocks Zone.

It’s been a big opening week for the youngest generation of Island fishermen, with juniors and mini juniors holding their own against the grown-ups in the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby.

For 25 years it was an anticipated event — the arrival of the limited-edition prints depicting classic Vineyard fishing scenes as rendered by artist Ray Ellis.

A poetry reading that is as much a celebration of the poet as of the poems is not very common. Yet that was what took place Tuesday afternoon in Chilmark, as Nancy Aronie hosted more than 25 people for a reading of poetry by Peggy Freydberg. Mrs. Freydberg, who is 106, was the guest of honor.