The white picket fence bordering State Road and the West Tisbury cemetery will remain standing for now after the town historic district commission, in a split vote Monday, denied a plan from the select board to remove most of the fence.

Located on the furthest, most immaculate tip of Chappaquiddick, Cape Pogue Wildlife Refuge is home to salt marsh, coastal cedars, endangered shorebirds and some of the best recreational fishing the Vineyard has to offer.

For its latest community art show and sale, titled Love Laugh Leap Live!, Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs has cast a wide net and pulled in a brimming catch.

It's school vacation week, which sets the dial to serious quiet mode around the Island. But there is still plenty to do for those who remain.

The Island Grown board of directors this week announced that senior director of programs Noli Taylor will become executive director of programs and outreach, with managing director Michelle Gittlen the executive director of operations.