Aquinnah voters passed a $3 million budget and nearly all 30 articles at the annual town meeting Tuesday night, moving through a 10-article special town meeting session first.

Voters backed the selectmen’s recommendation to fund just $134,000 of the $160,000 requested by the Tri-Town ambulance service, questioning the number of full-time paramedics needed to staff the service and the purpose of a deputy chief. The reduced dollar amount would not include the deputy chief’s salary.

The state attorney general’s office is investigating the town of Oak Bluffs’s bidding processes in connection with contractors’ work done at the old library, the town harbor, and a wastewater project connecting the high school, YMCA and community services to the town sewer line, Oak Bluffs town counsel Ron Rappaport revealed at Tuesday’s selectmen’s meeting.

Five-year-old Wyatt Nicholson was among the top winners of the 37th annual Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club trout tournament held Saturday morning at Duarte’s Pond in West Tisbury. The young fisherman caught the biggest trout, an 18 ¾ inch rainbow, which put him into first place.

The Oak Bluffs youngster, accompanied by his father Caleb, fished early in the morning and also caught a 17-inch fish. For his efforts he won a brand new bicycle, fishing rod and trophy.

Three Vineyard fishermen had a real-life Jaws moment on Friday morning when they encountered a great white shark circling a dead minke whale that had become tangled in lobster line in the area known as Devil’s Bridge off Aquinnah.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted without dissent on Thursday night to approve a plan for a large new grocery store on State Road in Vineyard Haven that will consolidate the two businesses owned by Elio Silva, Vineyard Grocer and Tisbury Farm Market. The commission had fast-tracked its review of Mr. Silva’s plan for the property that now houses Island Home Furnishings on State Road.

After the approval Mr. Elio thanked the commission and summarized his business philosophy.

Reflecting on the award he had just been given by Cape and Islands state Rep. Timothy Madden on Monday, Edgartown selectman Michael Donaroma said winning it was the easiest thing he’d ever done.

The plaque he was presented was recognition of Mr. Donaroma’s involvement with Daybreak’s employment program, in particular 29 years of employing Sumner Grover at his nursery and landscaping business.

Daybreak operates through Martha’s Vineyard Community Services to provide employment and other assistance for Islanders in need.