The Harbor View Hotel took home the best professional chili award at mvyradio’s 31st annual Big Chili Contest held at the Portuguese American Club this weekend.

The fishing cages, nets and other gear that lie scattered around Menemsha may soon have a place of their own behind the Chilmark landfill.

In January, Hal and Erin Ryerson, familiar faces on the Vineyard restaurant scene, purchased The Sweet Life Cafe. They plan to re-open the restaurant later this spring.

At this year’s annual town meeting, Oak Bluffs voters will decide whether to spend $9.9 million to demolish the old town hall and replace it with a modern structure on the same site.

Voters in Oak Bluffs and Tisbury this year will be asked to move forward on ambitious plans to expand each town’s sewer district, with a common goal of benefitting both local business and coastal ponds.

With frustration bubbling over among all parties, Edgartown officials made their case Wednesday for a proposal to acquire the dilapidated Yellow House in the heart of downtown.