Sweet Bites Bakery opened just before Thanksgiving, and was inundated with orders for holiday cakes and pies. It was the best off-season welcome Valerio and Sonia Destefani could imagine.

Margaret Whitton, a seasonal resident of Chilmark best known for her sultry performance as Rachel Phelps, the showgirl turned team owner in the Major League movies, died at her home in Palm Beach on Dec. 4.

Chilmark voters Monday breezed through a special town meeting warrant, approving funding for projects in and around Menemsha and enhanced radio transmission for public safety officers.

Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey has sued three district attorneys, including Cape and Islands DA Michael O’Keefe, alleging they failed to comply with the state public records law.

James Taylor, the singer-songwriter who got his start as a teenager performing at cafes on the Vineyard, was celebrated Sunday as one of five 2016 Kennedy Center medal recipients.