General overrides, school repairs and new bylaw language will all be decided at the West Tisbury annual town meeting next week.

In Edgartown, two candidates are running for one position on the planning board, and three candidates are running for one position on the select board.

Funding for a new recreation center, a potential ban on gas-powered leaf blowers and planning for a sewage system in the Ocean Heights neighborhood will all be put before Edgartown voters at town meeting next week.

The Tisbury select board this week agreed to remove the benches from two bus stop shelters across from the Steamship Authority terminal in Vineyard Haven.

More than 50 Edgartown residents, including a baby or two, turned out Saturday afternoon for a candidates’ forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Martha’s Vineyard. The town election is April 10, following the annual town meeting April 8.

The mass firing of probationary employees at federal agencies and other cuts by the Trump administration reached the epicenter of marine research for the Cape and Islands last week.