A diesel fuel spill from a sunken boat in Lake Tashmoo was contained early this week with what is believed to be minimal environmental damage. Shellfish beds remain closed.

Island conservation organizations will be conducting prescribed burns this spring on three different pieces of conservation land. The burns will take place between March 31 and May 31.

A proposed watershed planning district in Oak Bluffs and Tisbury would lay the groundwork for added wastewater regulations around the Lagoon Pond, and for greater public participation as the two towns work to restore the estuary.

Saturday night's full moon, the Daffodil Moon, appears in the zodiacal constellation Virgo.

As of early in the morning on April 2, Chappaquiddick was no longer an island completely separated from Martha’s Vineyard. Nearly eight years after a northeaster cut a breach in the three-mile barrier beach that connects Edgartown with the smaller island, the Norton Point breach had closed.

Tisbury selectmen took stock in the aftermath of a Monday oil spill at Lake Tashmoo, praising the response.