Members of the Vineyard’s creative community seldom miss an opportunity to support each other, especially when there’s free food involved, as was the case when Island artisans, interior decorators and architects met last week to share notes on sourcing custom-made, handcrafted built-ins and accessories close to home.

The West Tisbury Grange No. 251, one of the Island’s oldest social and fraternal organizations, has disbanded. The last meeting was held more than a week ago. The master of the Grange, John S. Alley, removed the charter from the building on Wednesday. He plans to return the framed, yellowed 105-year old document to the Boston headquarters.

It was a sad moment for this ordinarily cheerful West Tisbury resident whose memories of the organization go back for many years.

The Vineyard is generally a safe place to eat. You can visit the fields where your vegetables were grown, you know the roast chicken you’re having for dinner was slaughtered humanely at an Island farm and this is a small enough community where you trust the purveyors.

But not everything Islanders eat is local, and when there’s a baby spinach recall, as there was in 2010, a tomato salmonella scare, as there was in 2008, or a hot dog recall like the one in 1999, questions arise over how safe we really are from foodborne illnesses.

It may have been the coldest day on the Vineyard in five years, but the warmest place to be on Monday afternoon was the pool inside the new YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard in Oak Bluffs. The heated aquatics center was an echo chamber of energy as the Vineyard high school swim team took to the blocks for the first home meet in 40 years.

Many considered it a historic moment as the first swimmers hit the pool for the first event — 25-yard freestyle — against the Blue Hills Technical School from Canton.