After nearly two hours of debate at a special town meeting Wednesday night, Aquinnah residents voted to allow Vineyard Power to install 200 solar panels at the town landfill. The one article-warrant passed 29-13.

The 60,000 kilowatt system will power all of the town buildings and street lights.

A scaled down design for a new U.S. Coast Guard boathouse in Menemsha is still too tall and too intrusive into the harbor, Chilmark selectmen said at a special presentation Tuesday afternoon.

“The height is still an issue,” said selectman and chairman of the board Frank Fenner. “Everything seems to be growing and we’re trying to contain this a little bit and not get into a position where everyone is up in arms about a mammoth structure.”

Felicia Cheney, director of the Edgartown Free Public Library, will resign from her position at the top of the stacks, she announced at a Monday library trustees meeting.

“It was the right time for me to do it,” Ms. Cheney said when reached by phone Tuesday. The time frame for her last day on the job will be discussed at the Dec. 19 trustees meeting, she said.

Steamship Authority excursion privileges issued to approximately half of all profile numbers will expire on Dec. 31. Island residents with profile numbers ending in an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7 or 9 ) must renew their excursion registration in order to continue receiving discounted auto rates and preferred booking.

The school committee for Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School unanimously certified the 2013 school budget Monday night, paving the way for Island towns to vote on the school’s budget at their spring town meetings.

The certified budget is $16,910,431.40, a 1.85 per cent increase from Fiscal Year 2012. As he did at a budget hearing last week, Principal Steve Nixon stressed to the school committee that out of six major categories on the budget, spending for two categories dropped, and one increased by .05 percent.

New Year’s fireworks are coming to Edgartown. On Monday the town’s board of selectmen approved the Harbor View Hotel’s proposal to put on a fireworks show in the Edgartown Harbor to usher in the new year.

Representatives from the hotel said they are staging the show for the benefit of the community, and the hotel is working with the Edgartown police and fire departments to sort out logistics for the display.