A independent review of the SSA describes an organization so focused on saving money and reacting to emergencies that it has failed to follow basic business practices.

It was a mixed bag of commanding victories and tight losses in the opening week of the season for the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School winter sports teams.

The New Bedford-based company already developing one wind farm south of the Vineyard was one of three that won the right to develop additional wind farms in a highly competitive auction.

With only about a third of the requisite 37-person quorum present at the Aquinnah town hall for the special town meeting Thursday night, selectmen decided to reschedule the gathering for Jan. 23.

The town of West Tisbury has taken ownership of a property on State Road across from Alley’s General Store after owners failed to pay taxes for more than three years.

At a packed meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission Thursday, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection gave an update on the discovery of chemical contamination in groundwater near the airport.