Edgartown's senior statesman Fred B. Morgan Jr. closed a chapter for the town Tuesday afternoon when the longtime selectman announced he will step down from his leadership post after nearly 31 years of public service.

By a heavy majority, Chilmark voters this week approved plans to expand and renovate their public library. At a Monday night special town meeting, more than 300 voters filled the Community Center to overflowing and strongly backed the project.

It's already being called the "drop-and-go" approach. Eager to make the transit hub in West Tisbury center look more like just another bus stop, town and transit leaders this week agreed to trim the amount of time that buses linger on the village main street.

For the second time in two weeks, Theophilus Nix Jr., an Oak Bluffs attorney, has come before selectmen holding a petition that could give voters a chance to pull their town out of the Martha's Vineyard Commission.

Oak Bluffs police say former Tisbury selectman A. Kirk Briggs was driving drunk just before midnight Tuesday when his 1989 Chevy pickup truck hit a 25-year-old woman from Estonia who was walking her bicycle along New York avenue just west of Our Market.

Oak Bluffs selectman Todd Rebello this week all but admitted that town officials have done a lousy job making moped dealers abide by town regulations, and selectmen agreed Tuesday night to improve local enforcement.