It was the night before the big three-day Vineyard Cup and sailors and friends of sailors were out in force. But they weren’t on the water. They were at the 24th annual Seafood Buffet and Auction to benefit Sail Martha’s Vineyard.

Some 75 people attended a ceremony and reception Sunday, exactly a year after the modular buildings that make up the campus arrived by barge on the Vineyard and seven months after the facility was officially opened.

A conversation Thursday about homelessness on Martha’s Vineyard shed light on the gravity of the Island’s housing shortage, and introduced a new initiative by Island churches set to begin next winter to provide emergency housing for those without a home.

Members of the Lagoon Pond Association will gather this weekend to talk about critical issues facing the saltwater pond.

Connect to End Violence will hold its fourth annual seawall event this weekend in which men take a stand against domestic and sexual violence against women.