The name dates back to the 1930s, when Addie Crist sewed and stuffed six red stockings full of Christmas treats for Island children who otherwise might have gone without presents. The stockings themselves are gone, but the name remains, and Ms. Crist’s legacy now resonates through many Island Christmas households, spreading charitable holiday cheer.

Driver’s education is back in the high school curriculum for next year, despite deep cuts in school revenues and pressure from finance committees to keep town assessments as low as possible. At their meeting Monday night, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee certified a high school budget for fiscal year 2011 with two notable changes from the budget principal Steve Nixon presented to the public last week.

The chief of police in Aquinnah will soon be driving a 2007 Ford Crown Victoria, thanks to the Edgartown police department. The Aquinnah selectmen agreed to accept the donated cruiser — which was deemed defunct and in need of replacement by the town of Edgartown — at their meeting Tuesday night.

On Monday night, Chilmark voters will be asked to join the other five Island towns in allowing the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School District Committee to sell the office building of the superintendent of schools in Vineyard Haven.

Chilmark is currently the only town that has not yet agreed to join the petition for special legislation necessary to allow the sale.

The special town meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Chilmark Community Center; moderator Everett H. Poole will preside. There are nine articles on the warrant.

More than four years after Chilmarkers voted to approve the Middle Line Road development, the first town-owned affordable housing project there, the board of selectmen decided Tuesday to waste no time in making the six resident homesites available to qualified town residents.

On the eve of a public hearing and subsequent formal adoption of the Island Plan, a comprehensive blueprint for the future that has been on the drawing board at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for more than three years, the Edgartown selectmen have said they cannot support the plan in its current form.

“I think it’s a mistake to rush something that we’re going to live with for the next 50 years,” said selectman Arthur Smadbeck. “I think it deserves a lot more attention before we adopt it.”