By JIM HICKEY

The Martha’s Vineyard Drug Task Force and Oak Bluffs police arrested five people last week on a series of drug charges, including heroin and cocaine trafficking.

On Tuesday the task force executed a search warrant at a house on Lyme street in Oak Bluffs following a nearly four-month investigation. Oak Bluffs, Tisbury, Massachusetts state police and members of the drug task force assisted with the investigation and arrests.

Still well short of their goal to raise $4 million from private contributions to expand and renovate the Edgartown Public Library, town library trustees turned to the selectmen for help this week, asking them to place an article on the annual town meeting warrant for the money.

The trustees need to raise $4 million by next June in order to receive a matching grant from the Massachusetts board of library commissioners. To date trustees have raised just under $750,000.

Corrections

An interview in Friday’s Gazette with Rabbi Caryn Broitman reported incorrectly on the denomination of the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center. It is reform, while Rabbi Broitman is reconstructionist.

•

Schooner, the new book about the building of Rebecca, celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway, not the 13th.

The Gazette regrets the errors.

On the Boathouse

The Boathouse Club in Edgartown has established a foundation to provide financial grants to nonprofits on Martha’s Vineyard. The Boathouse Foundation Inc. is funded by the generosity of members and owners via an annual contribution. The foundation is delighted to be able to support the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard and has committed to making an annual $25,000 donation to the organization.

Chilmark town employees will need to get back in the habit of tracking and documenting their mileage while out on town business. The selectmen voted at their meeting Tuesday night to uphold a town mileage reimbursement bylaw that has until now gone mostly unenforced.

Following last week’s town vote in favor of a new $5.8 million emergency services building, Tisbury selectmen this week continued to wrestle with the problem of what to do with town workers who will be displaced by the new construction project.

The new building will go on the site of what is now the town hall annex, which means those people will have to work elsewhere. Which means a trailer.

Or maybe two trailers. Maybe single wide, maybe double wide. If they will fit and it doesn’t cost too much.