On Sunday, Nov. 1, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is teaming up with the Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative to host a free movie event for Island youth.

Holly Bellebuono’s Women Healers of the World has been awarded the 16th Annual Thomas DeBaggio Book of the Year Award by The International Herb Association.

From dancing at a haunted hospital to hayrides, trick-or-treating to a road race, the opportunities for mayhem and satisfying all matter of sweet teeth are abundant this year.

Every Halloween it’s the Butterfingers, Baby Ruths, and all manner of chocolate bars that rule most neighborhoods. But on Pine street in Vineyard Haven, it’s the sugary scent of doughnuts wafting from Hilda Backus’s kitchen that beckons trick-or-treaters.

Ray Ewing of Edgartown recently had his work included in an international student photography exhibition in China.

American Romantic by Ward Just was named a Must-Read Book in the fiction category of the 2015 Massachusetts Book Awards.