The Vineyard Family Planning clinic — for now — has been spared deep state budget cuts that threatened the 30-year old clinic with possible closure.

“It is a huge step in the right direction, it’s a big relief,” said Elizabeth Torrant, chief operations officer of Health Imperatives Inc., in a telephone interview Friday morning. Formerly Health Care of Southeastern Massachusetts, the health group manages the Vineyard clinic.

The ocean-facing beach around the treacherous breach at Norton Point Beach on the Chappaquiddick side was closed to swimmers yesterday following a fatality over the weekend.

Students wrapped up their weeklong summit with the Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative last Friday, but that is not the end of their work. Many of their projects have staying power befitting the title of the gathering, the Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development.

A Watertown man died of apparent cardiac arrest after he and a swimming companion were rescued by Edgartown emergency responders at Norton Point on Saturday afternoon.

State foresters and Nature Conservancy fire ecology experts will draft a fire management plan for Manuel Correllus State Forest on Martha’s Vineyard, to guide ongoing fire work, thanks to recent funding from the U.S. Forest Service.

The $374,000 also will cover the partnership to restore 925 acres in Massachusetts with prescribed fire over the next year, to manage ecosystems and improve public safety.

By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG

In a move aimed at curbing the unlawful use of the Greenlands by dirt bikers, the West Tisbury conservation commission voted Tuesday night to put up five new warning signs at entrances to the preserved area.

The vote comes in response to several complaints received by the environmental police and a group called the Friends of the Greenlands.