Three new fellows have been selected for the Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship, a program established in 2006 by the Kohlberg family to further sustainability efforts on the Island; they are Micah Agnoli, Wesley Look and Taza Vercruysse. Vision fellows receive financial support to study and work in a variety of areas vital to a sustainable future for the Island, including renewable energy and alternative transportation, farm to school and sustainable agriculture, conservation biology and fisheries management, green architecture, elderly services and healthcare.

By REMY TUMIN

State police arrested former Massachusetts probation chief Milton Britton Sr. last Friday for cocaine trafficking.

Mr. Britton, 65, was found with three small bags of cocaine in his pocket when police met him exiting his Oak Bluffs home in the Sengekontacket condominiums. According to the police report released this week, a subsequent search of his rooms turned up an additional 36 individually-wrapped cellophane bags in his basement ready for distribution. Police found 39 grams in total.

The town of Oak Bluffs is signalling its seriousness about combatting the threat of nitrogen in Vineyard ponds with a warrant article that begins the process of sewering subdivisions along Lagoon Pond. In the annual town meeting warrant selectmen are asking the town to transfer $150,000 from the town’s wastewater retained earnings account to fund the initial planning of the sewering project.

There will be one more beer and wine license in Edgartown this summer, and that has some local business owners uneasy.

Appearing at a public hearing during an Edgartown selectmen’s meeting on Monday, attorney Sean Murphy, representing John Ready of the proposed Edgartown Meat and Fish Market in Post Office Square, said that an additional alcohol license in town would not affect other businesses.

For almost a decade, the two major ferry operators in the Cape and Islands were united in trenchant opposition to Cape Wind. Suddenly though, one operator sees the wind farm as a major tourism opportunity, while the other maintains it is a navigational hazard.

The one that changed position was Hy-Line Cruises, which announced this week that it was partnering with Cape Wind to develop eco-themed tours of the 130-turbine wind farm in Nantucket Sound, both during construction and operation.