Nine months ago a light bulb went off in yoga teacher Sian Williams’s head. She lived at the West Tisbury Cohousing complex and, as a resident, the common house was available for her to use. Finally, she thought, a beautiful, available space for a yoga collective.

She’s the talk of the Island. They’re musing about her in the coffee line at Alley’s and she is the subject of after-class rumblings at the Yoga Barn. Passengers discuss her on the ferry. Your sister heard about her at a bar — in Brooklyn. Lately it is hard to find someone who is not involved, at least conversationally, in the search for Olive, the missing black Lab.

Tony Lombardi, director of the YMCA’s teen center, stood in the doorway of an office at the Y on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road last Thursday afternoon as members and staff filed through the wide, clean and bright hallway behind him. Every other person seemed to tap his back and say, “Hey, Tony.” Mr. Lombardi waved to them all like old friends and continued talking.

Never mind the current cold snap, we’re about to get hit with some warm, melodic, honey-hued breezes this Friday, when Hawaiian music great John Cruz brings his soulful blues to the Island. But for now, it’s still freezing. And on Monday afternoon, when the beloved bluesman called from Northhampton, Mass., where he’s writing his third record, it was really, really cold. “This morning had to be in the one-digits,” he groaned. “It’s brutal here.”

If you’re a fan of Tish Hinojosa, you’re in seriously good company. Who does the beloved cantautora (That’s Spanish for singer-songwriter; Ms. Hinojosa says she loves the romantic lilt of the word.) count among her fans? Well, for starters there’s Linda Rondstadt, who once flew Ms. Hinojosa from Texas to her home in San Francisco. “She wanted me to play some songs for her, and she ended up liking Donde Voy,” the singer recalled in a phone interview from Boston this week, where she had just finished performing at an elementary school.