The Tisbury board of assessors has reversed a decision to tax several town nonprofits, board chairman Angela Cywinski confirmed.

Amid internal turmoil, the Martha’s Vineyard Airport commission took steps to hire a new airport director this week.

Family, friends and hundreds of Edgartown’s finest gathered at the Old Whaling Church on Monday to honor the life of the native son, senior statesman and war hero.

From the grande dame Harbor View Hotel Edgartown to the pastoral Lambert’s Cove Inn in West Tisbury, more than half a dozen hotels changed ownership on Martha’s Vineyard last year.

It was opening day at the Flying Horses Carousel and Helena Penn, age 11, called her three rides “awesome.”

The Martha’s Vineyard Airport commission will interview four finalists for a new airport director Monday. The interviews will be in public at a meeting that begins at 9 a.m.