While other towns are scrambling to make ends meet, West Tisbury continues pushing ahead with capital project plans to upgrade its town buildings. The latest is an effort to replace the tiny police station headquarters on Mill Pond. After reviewing a number of possible sites, the West Tisbury police station siting committee has recommended the town locate the new station on the town property in North Tisbury that houses the town public safety building, including a fire station.

The Aquinnah shellfish committee will review residency rules for commercial scallop licenses following the discovery that the current rules are unclear and possibly contradictory.

At the regular selectmen’s meeting Tuesday night the committee requested a meeting with the selectmen in the next month to review the rules.

Home Accoutrements

Island builders, architects and interior designers are invited to a reception on Jan. 20 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Julie Robinson Interiors in Vineyard Haven.

The reception will feature Vineyard artists and craftspeople featured in the Sourcebook of Architectural and Design Elements Handcrafted on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.

The Oak Bluffs selectmen kicked off their first meeting of the new year on a sour note as town officials scrambled to slash money from a budget that is already $238,000 in the red.

“The good times are not going to come for a couple years,” predicted selectman Ron DiOrio gloomily.

More than nine years after plans for a huge wind farm in Nantucket Sound were first revealed, the final regulatory approvals for Cape Wind have been granted.

The exhaustive review process began in 2001. It ended last Friday, with granting by the Environmental Protection Agency of a permit relating to potential effects on air quality of emissions from vessels engaged in operations to do with construction and operation of the 130-turbine development on Horseshoe Shoal.