The School Board Thursday afternoon decided to ask the voters to approve a levy in an election set for February 9. The levy amounts to a 4-year continuation of the current levy of $6.82 million per year.

The annual Celebration of Trees, a project of the Island Hospital Foundation, is back this Friday and Saturday. Local businesses, organizations and individuals sponsor and decorate Christmas trees, which are then donated to the foundation for sale Saturday night.

A Thanksgiving eve fight over eating Thanksgiving food ended with one person in jail.

The School Board is prepared to vote this week to ask the public to okay a new four-year $27-million levy to continue operations and maintenance. The Board has set a meeting for Wednesday afternoon to vote on the levy proposal.

A local woman recognized an attempted scam when she received a phone call and another local woman reported that her ex-boyfriend broke up her apartment with a baseball bat.

One turkey and two decent films for the Thanksgiving weekend here. There are good movies in theaters this weekend, but Old Dogs definitely isn’t one of them.