A meteorologist from the National Weather Service was on the Island recently servicing its two weather stations. Alan Dunham, 55, the regional observing program leader who made the visit from headquarters in Taunton, has Island ties.

His uncle was the late David W. Dunham, a resident of Vineyard Haven who died in January 2000.

The Vineyard community from here and abroad showed up for a fundraiser to help an Island personality coping with medical hardship. Jim Moore, a sales representative from Island Food Products and a former food and beverage director for the Harbor View Hotel, is fighting the cancer Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

The stock market may be seeing red on Wall street this autumn, but here on the Vineyard there is a bright future in cranberries. On the Island and across southeastern Massachusetts, it is a banner year for cranberries, both wild and cultivated.

An architect from Connecticut and a mailman from Westport were the top winners in this year’s 63rd annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby.

On Sunday, Paul C. Harris of Oak Bluffs and Weston, Conn., won a new black Chevrolet 4x4 pickup truck for a 10.75-pound bonito he caught while fishing with friends earlier this month.

Scott D. Tompkins of Westport won a 20-foot center console Eastern powerboat for a 40.12-pound striped bass he caught fishing alone on an Up-Island shore in the early evening of Oct. 1.

A stiff, chilly breeze and sunshine greeted the return of a peripatetic 1929 Oak Bluffs fire truck No. 2 last Saturday. With Donald Billings, 77, of Oak Bluffs behind the wheel, the truck rumbled off the ferry Nantucket into Vineyard Haven. Riding shotgun next to Mr. Billings was the Maxim truck’s former owner, Robert A. DiPoli of Medfield.

The truck had not been on the Island in over 50 years.