After heartfelt discussion about the cost of education on the Vineyard, the all-Island school committee approved a $5.4 million budget for superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss Tuesday night.

After more than a year of discussion, Oak Bluffs is poised to modernize its fire department by creating a new command structure.

A caravan-style car drove off the end of the Steamship Authority dock and was trapped underwater with four passengers inside.

This was the premise of a training scenario staged Sunday morning for the Oak Bluffs dive and rescue team.

“An elderly person had a medical event and they gunned it down the terminal,” said Oak Bluffs fire department acting chief John Rose, who conducted the dive team’s first car rescue drill.

Tobias J. Vanderhoop was elected chairman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) Sunday in a much-watched tribal election, unseating two-term chairman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais by a wide margin.

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) election opened Sunday amid much anticipation about who will be the next to lead the Vineyard’s only federally recognized Native American tribe. Polling is private and takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at tribal council headquarters in Aquinnah.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission Thursday approved the new NStar poles that have already been installed along Island roads, but attached several conditions for future projects.