A chill is in the air and for many, cabin fever has begun to set in. This Sunday, Dec. 13, is a great opportunity to grab that antique firearm off the mantle and head over to the Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club for the annual Black Powder Shoot.

From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., big sounds will resound as muskets, blunderbusses and hand cannons herald the day before the primitive firearm deer season opens on the Island. Members and the public are invited to participate.

Tisbury voters have approved spending almost $7 million to build a new emergency services building.

By a margin of 562 votes to 397 they endorsed the borrowing of $6.8 million to construct the new building on Spring street, opposite the Tisbury elementary school, on town land which is currently the site of the town hall annex.

And by a slightly smaller majority — 538 to 404 — they approved borrowing another $115,000 to temporarily relocate the annex.

A man deer hunting on Chappaquiddick Saturday morning was accidentally shot by a member of his party — marking the second time in a less than a week someone has mistakenly been shot during the ongoing hunting season.

A spokesperson for the state environmental police said the man caught a shotgun slug while on a private property on Cape Pogue just before 11 a.m. on Saturday.

More than four years after Chilmarkers voted to approve the Middle Line Road development, the first town-owned affordable housing project there, the board of selectmen decided Tuesday to waste no time in making the six resident homesites available to qualified town residents.

On Monday night, Chilmark voters will be asked to join the other five Island towns in allowing the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School District Committee to sell the office building of the superintendent of schools in Vineyard Haven.

Chilmark is currently the only town that has not yet agreed to join the petition for special legislation necessary to allow the sale.

The special town meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Chilmark Community Center; moderator Everett H. Poole will preside. There are nine articles on the warrant.

A belated confession and a stolen safe recovered in a wooded area off the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road led to five arrests this weekend in connection with a two-year-old burglary at the E.C. Cottle lumberyard on Lambert’s Cove Road in West Tisbury.