The Chilmark School and Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center will be concluding this year’s inter-generational program with their annual photography show, called Growing Up Island.

Once again, the students were “buddied up” with Windemere residents in the fall. The students are given cameras (through a grant from the Permanent Endowment Fund) and asked to take photographs of their own lives. They bring their photographs down to Windemere when they visit their buddies each month.

The Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha’s Vineyard has announced its spring grant recipients with a total of $45,000 awarded to 14 Island organizations.

On June 21, the Oak Bluffs Association will kick off summer with HarborFest 2008, a free event featuring music, arts, crafts, food and entertainment.

The association, which is producing the event, is accepting applications for booth space from artists, non-profits, food concessions as well as children’s games and entertainment.

Applications are available at daRosa’s on Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs, on-line at oakbluffsmv.com under the events tab, or by e-mailing a request at [email protected].

The Menemsha Fisheries Development Fund presents Securing a Future for Coastal Fishing Communities: Ideas from Eastern Maine on Wednesday, May 7, at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.

Robin Alden, executive director of the Penobscot East Resource Center and former Maine commissioner of marine resources, and Ted Ames, life-long commercial fisherman, scientist and 2005 winner of a MacArthur Fellows Program award, will share their work.

When the Oak Bluffs resident home site committee was established by a nearly unanimous vote at a special town meeting in September of 1987, it was widely heralded as an innovative and proactive measure to combat the dearth of affordable housing on the Island by creating low-cost lots for qualified, year-round town residents.

Since that time, the committee has seen its share of highs and lows.