A convivial crowd filled the Black Dog Tavern Wednesday night for the first in this season’s Sail Martha’s Vineyard dinner lectures. Capt. Bob Douglas was the man at the microphone.

Last weekend the Osprey hockey league hosted a tournament with a team from York, Me. The free girls league begins in preschool and runs through the eighth grade, helping girls stay invested in the sport until they get to high school.

The West Tisbury Library offers a Capoeira Workshop for tweens and teens on Tuesday, Dec. 19.

Merger talks are now under way between the nonprofit program that provides free tennis instruction for Island children and the YMCA.

Shotgun hunting season began Monday, and the weigh station was busy this week with hunters, biologists collecting ticks, and a new deer donation program.