Forget Shark Week — Shark Summer on the Vineyard is about to begin, not in the water but on the baseball field.

The Martha’s Vineyard Sharks, the Island’s own collegiate wooden bat summer baseball team, stage their second season home-opener by taking on the Nashua Silver Knights at 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 9. In honor of opening day, the Sharks are opening the doors for all budding ball players by giving free admission to all Little and Junior League players. For the regular folk, tickets are $3 for children (under 13) and $5 for adults.

Regional high school junior Dana Jacobs has created the "Sixty-Four Dollar Question," a fun typeface that has been downloaded almost 7,900 times in the last two weeks. Dana is in negotiations with a U.K. company to sell the commercial rights for the font. To see the font or download it for yourself, go to http://www.dafont.com/sixty-four-dollar-question.font.

Emotions ran high at a West Tisbury special town meeting Tuesday night where voters continued the ongoing debate over town rules relating to dog ownership. First voters rejected a proposal to strengthen the town leash law, and then split on the question of whether to pay for enforcement of a new rule that will restrict dogs at Lambert’s Cove Beach in the summer months.

A total of 184 voters turned out for the special session that lasted just over two hours.

After a second week of postseason action, two more Vineyard teams advanced to the next round, while two others had first-round exits.

Both tennis teams advanced to the second round of the playoffs. The girls swept Seekonk in their shortest match of the season Friday and the boys similarly took down Hanover on Monday.

The boys’ matches were held at the Vineyard Tennis Center after rainy conditions forced the competition indoors; time limits on court usage forced the matches to played as eight-game pro sets.

The Edgartown Public Library has a new director.

Jill Hughes, the former executive director of the Connecticut Library Consortium, will start the job June 25. She is replacing former director Felicia Cheney, who announced that she was resigning last December.

Ms. Hughes was introduced to the board of selectmen Monday. After the meeting she said that she and her husband, frequent Vineyard visitors, had wanted to live on the Island, and she has family who are year-round residents.

Venus, the bright planet that has been a presence in our western sky since winter, is disappearing from view and entering the morning sky. But before it does, it will pass between the sun and the earth and, in an exceedingly rare astronomical event, align with the sun  on Tuesday afternoon.

The transit will be visible on the East Coast shortly after 6 p.m. and won’t happen again until December 11, 2117.