The crusading writer, author and journalism professor who sued the federal government for keeping secret files on himself and his wife in the 1950s, died Friday in Chevy Chase, Md. Mr. Kimball, 98, had a summer home in Chilmark for more than 50 years, and lived in Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs year-round from 1994 to 2009.

Attorney General Martha Coakley, addressing a meeting of Martha’s Vineyard Democrats Saturday morning, said she feels confident about her chances to be elected the next governor.

As a months-long review by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission of expansion plans for the Vineyard Haven Stop & Shop continues, members of the commission expressed frustration late this week with the lack of progress.

And spokesmen for the international grocery chain told the commission that they have reduced the size of the plans as much as they can.

An Island man will go to jail for 18 months after pleading guilty to charges that include indecent assault and battery on a child.

Andrew R. Bradshaw, 49, pleaded guilty in Edgartown district court Friday to open and gross lewdness, indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14 (amended from rape of a child with force) and two counts of enticing a child younger than 16.

Oak Bluffs will receive $2 million to install a boardwalk along Sea View avenue extension. The state Seaport Advisory Council announced Thursday that the town’s public access improvement project was one of 11 seaport community projects chosen to receive funding.

The amendment would allow dispensaries by special permit at two lots on Dukes County avenue.