With stormy weather in the forecast for Halloween, officials in both Tisbury and Oak Bluffs announced that trick or treating would be postponed until Saturday.

When a major hurricane or other disaster strikes Martha’s Vineyard, people who need help right away can’t count on getting it from first responders, the emergency management director for West Tisbury said in a talk Saturday.

One glass. 250 wines. Pick up a steak tartar chicharron when you pass “go.” Those were the three rules at the Grand Tasting on Saturday, the signature event of the Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival.

Cook the Vineyard editor and author Susie Middleton led the wide-ranging, insightful and often funny conversation with New York Times cooking maestro Sam Sifton.

As curtailed off-season service begins on the Island’s only public bus system, the Vineyard Transit Authority is seeing pushback from riders, as well as drivers and their new union.