The Martha’s Vineyard Touchdown Club’s popular tempura food booth — a primary fundraiser for the high school’s football and cheerleading programs — will need an unprecedented effort to be ready for this summer’s agricultural fair. The club faces a shortage in funding to rebuild the booth, which was severely damaged in a fire last September. The fair takes place a month from now.

Driving down a long dirt road near Lambert’s Cove, 18-year-old Kevin Brennan pulls over next to a few bushes that, to the untrained eye, blend in with the rest of the sea of green.

He takes a few hand-made baskets out of the car and heads into the bushes, picking wineberries from the vine and popping them in his basket (and a few in his mouth). Mr. Brennan glides across the sticky and prickly wineberry patch that happens to be interlaced with poison ivy at the roots.

Lost Rockets. A classified advertisement in the Gazette recently described how a group of Cub Scouts had shot off 12-inch rockets and many of the small spacecraft went missing in windy conditions. The advertisement sought help in finding the missing recyclable rockets.

The advertisement may have fallen short of helping the youths get what they wanted (one rocket was recovered as a direct result of the ad), but it did raise the word that Cub Scouts can have a lot of fun on a windy afternoon in Chilmark.

This spring Kristen Palma decided to buy a little house for sale on Ocean View Farm Road in Chilmark.

“We rented a house just down the street right before Paul got sick,” she said. “It was a strange coincidence that this house came up for sale. I think it was one of those things that was just meant to be.”