Edgartown selectmen have tentatively called a meeting for May 4 to consider candidates for the town’s next police chief, when interim police chief Jack Collins is expected to make his recommendations.

As part of new security measures, visitors to Martha's Vineyard Regional High School are now asked to present identification which is scanned into a computer, and to wear a name tag with their picture printed on it when walking the halls.

Nearly 40 years after John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd created The Blues Brothers, the music and spirit of the mission continue. Mr. Aykroyd and Judy Belushi Pisano recently announced Blues Brothers Records, a new label dedicated to blues artists.

The up-Island regional school district may need to amend its budget after voters in West Tisbury rejected the town’s first tax override in 10 years Thursday.

With vigorous debate over two long evenings, Tisbury voters emerged from special and annual town meetings with a $24.3 million spending plan, authorization for Dukes County to buy a new building for the Center for Living, a new garage for the water works department, a share of the costs for a new school administration building, and restructuring that brings the department of public works under the authority of selectmen.

Edgartown voters readily approved nearly all articles, including a $32 million town operating budget at their annual town meeting. But they stopped short of spending $2.1 million to buy the Main street Mini-Park from the Hall family.