County manager Martina Thornton is involved in a tangled probate case in which she stands to inherit much of the estate of a longtime Edgartown resident who died 11 months ago.

Paulo DeOliveira was sworn in Thursday morning at the Dukes County courthouse as the county’s new Register of Deeds.

Donald Widdiss and Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, both former chairmen, will compete for the top spot when the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) holds its election this weekend.

Steamship Authority governors Tuesday awarded a bid for a $2.6 million temporary modular terminal building in Woods Hole, another early step in a large reconstruction project at the Woods Hole facility.

With offshore wind developers inching their way through the federal permitting process, government and company representatives stopped by the Vineyard this week.

Laura Marshard, a Vineyard-based prosecutor with the Cape and Islands district attorney’s office, is facing possible disciplinary action by the state agency that investigates complaints against lawyers.