A birthday for Ted Morgan and a big welcome for Jessie Damroth, the new executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club, were cause for celebration at the Edgartown Golf Club Saturday.

For 20 years, Featherstone Center for the Arts has offered a home for Island artists, making the most of its old barns and stables. But with a major donation this summer, the center is looking toward the future.

At 12:01 a.m., the first minute of Sunday morning, the lines will zip off reels and lures will plop softly in the water. The 71st Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby begins.

S. Bailey Norton Jr., a 10th generation Islander and widely-admired Edgartown elder who was descended from a family of fishermen, sea captains and yachtsmen, died Thursday. He was 95.

Vital child care and housing rehabilitation funds on Martha’s Vineyard may face dramatic cuts as a result of proposed changes to the state’s Community Development Block Grant program.