The Nauset Garden Club is accepting applications for two $5,000 scholarships for the 2014-2015 academic year. Students must be full-time residents of Cape Cod or the Islands and entering their junior or senior year or enrolled in a graduate program of an accredited college or university.

Steven James, 53, of Marshfield, and a partner died after going on a duck hunt early Tuesday morning. A third man was rescued by the Coast Guard and hospitalized with hypothermia.

Hardy bay scallopers were grounded, plumbers were on 24-hour call and hardware stores were doing a brisk business in space heaters, hand and foot warmers as the Vineyard was gripped by bitter cold along with the rest of the East Coast early this week.

A Rhode Island company was the low bidder on a a $7.3 million contract for a new library. And questions surfaced again about the Edgartown Library Foundation.

Despite hours of debate and five drafts of an operating budget, the up-Island regional school committee has yet to agree on a financial plan for 2015. Now under discussion is a draft that asks for an increase of 8.09 per cent, $752,000 more than last year.

Mr. Potter died Jan. 4 at the age of 89. A retired businessman and former treasure diver, he spent his early childhood years in China and recently wrote a colorful memoir titled My First Nine Lives.