The long-held vision of a connector road to bypass one of the Island’s worst traffic spots, the Edgartown-State Road intersection in Tisbury, might finally be just one town meeting vote away from realization.

This Tuesday’s Tisbury special town meeting will be asked to approve construction of the bypass, and work could begin within months. Voters also will be asked to authorize the board of selectmen to apply for funding, so, with a little luck, the project can be completed at no further cost to town residents.

The towns of Chilmark and Aquinnah will see a reduction in their property and casualty insurance costs following a driving safety course this week with members of the Tri-Town Ambulance Service, and the Chilmark and Aquinnah police and fire departments.

Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association, the towns’ property and casualty insurance provider, offers the training free. After the training, the towns are eligible to receive insurance premium credits through the MIIA.

Island authorities must radically cut nitrogen pollution in the Edgartown Great Pond, state officials told a public hearing Wednesday at Edgartown town hall about the final report from the Massachusetts Estuaries Project.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection held the hearing to discuss the pond’s nitrogen problems and the requirement for a Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan to limit nitrogen seeping into it.

A house becomes a home, and a home can become part of a family, a place of first steps, first words, first days of school and other shared memories. It’s not unusual then, that a parent hopes to pass a house on to a child, or a spouse to a husband or wife.