Scott Dawley has done it all: electrical work, sheet rocking, carpentry, flooring, diving for coins. “I’ve been in the trades ever since I was knee-high to a grasshopper,” he said. Mr. Dawley owns Dawley Flooring and Tile and also offers handyman services.

At first glance, a barrel of wood shavings outside a cabinet shop may not seem like a big deal. But to Bill Bishop, wood shavings bring back memories of growing up in Danbury, Conn. Behind the house he grew up in there was a cabinet shop. “I used to watch the guys make stuff in there,” he said. “The first time, I think I was about six or seven, I remember watching a man collect saw dust and shaving curls and the bags would overflow. I couldn’t comprehend how he could make so much. So I started watching him through the window. It was the first inclination that I wanted to be a carpenter.”

Pasted in the corner window of the door that leads into Lamplighter Corner is a sign that reads: “You need a lamp, Billy got a lamp.” It was written in blue crayon by the daughter of craftsman Billy Hoff, who has been at the helm of the Island business for the past eight years.

Owners of two up-Island restaurants said they were complying with state regulations following a bad water test that led to their closure late last week.

The state department of environmental protection ordered the drinking water shut off at the Chilmark Tavern and State Road Restaurant after total coliform bacteria and E. coli bacteria were found in routine water samples from the restaurants.

The same high school class that set records on the MCAS tests two years ago has made history on another standardized test.

The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High school class of 2013 show they outperformed all previous classes as well as many of their peers statewide, Director of Guidance Michael McCarthy told the high school committee Monday evening.