Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard is a rarity among hospice providers because it charges no fees for its services and takes no insurance payments.

The holiday concert season on Martha’s Vineyard begins Dec. 1 at the Chilmark Community Church with the first of three weekly offerings.

With Christmas less than a month away, art galleries on Martha’s Vineyard are showing their most gift-worthy wares, sized and priced for holiday shoppers.

If the Martha’s Vineyard music scene can be said to have a supergroup, it’s the Edbury All-Stars, who play most Thursday nights at the Ritz in Oak Bluffs.

Islanders need to get ready now for the effects of global climate change, Oak Bluffs conservation agent Liz Durkee told an attentive audience at the town library Saturday afternoon. “The seas are going to rise. We are an Island community,” Ms. Durkee said.

Recent catastrophic wildfires in California have sown concern on Martha’s Vineyard, where there is concern the 5,000-acre Manuel F. Correllus State Forest is becoming a tinder box.