Sample Edible Magazine

Edible Vineyard, a new quarterly magazine independently owned by Sam and Ali Berlow of Vineyard Haven, will be on the newsstands this April. A non-glossy free publication, the magazine is “all about the people who raise, grow, catch, hunt, cook and of course eat, on Martha’s Vineyard,” according to a press statement about the launch.

The Democratic Council of Martha’s Vineyard will meet this Saturday, Feb. 14, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in the Howes House, across from Alley’s Store in West Tisbury. The meeting is open to Democrats Islandwide.

Mas Kimball, newly elected chairman, will call the meeting to order. The agenda includes results of town caucuses across the Island, input from ad hoc committees, and a discussion of the inauguration. A short video on the economic recovery will be screened.

Accepted at Law School

Vanessa Williams of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has been accepted to Pace University’s Law Program for the fall of 2009. Vanessa is a 2002 graduate of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and a 2006 graduate of Marlboro College in Vermont. She is the daughter of Woody and Phyllis Williams of Vineyard Haven.

Craig Kingsbury Hangs

In Moakley Federal Court

A portrait of the late Craig Kingsbury of Vineyard Haven, who died in 2002, can be seen on the Web site of the John Joseph Moakley federal courthouse in Boston. The oil painting is the work of Elizabeth Henshaw of Wakefield, Mr. Kingsbury’s granddaughter. The portrait, entitled Memory Hat, shows Mr. Kingsbury in a characteristic pose in his garden, surrounded by greenery.

Midlife Is Not a Crisis

Are you a person beyond mid-life who has been wondering how to make the most of the rest of your life? Join a new discussion group which meets at the West Tisbury library on the first and third Wednesdays of each month from 8 to 9:30 a.m.

Poking out from the gloom of financial news is new hope for the fund-raising efforts of Island nonprofit organizations. A partnership of the Martha’s Vineyard Donors Collaborative, the Oak Bluffs Public Library and the Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts has established the Grant Resource Center at the library, available for organizations and individuals.