Kimberly Andrade, who started working for the town in December 2021, was on paid administrative leave for 10 months before she was terminated by the select board on Jan. 23 in a meeting that lasted under two minutes.

Last year, 81,666 passengers came through the airport, setting a new high point in the terminal’s 66-year history.

There were no obvious external wounds on the whale, which was found washed up on the island over the weekend.

Electric candles flickered on tables at the The Loft Saturday evening, as members of the Scottish Society and aficionados of Scottish culture gathe

Joseph LaCivita, currently the general manager of Watervliet, N.Y., will start on March 3. The select board unanimously picked Mr. LaCivita to succeed longtime administrator John Grande, who left in December.

At a pair of public hearings, some hunters gave their support to running the annual deer hunting season into January to reduce the Island's deer population. Others focused on different measures, such as allowing hunting on Sundays.