Chickie will not be moved. The prize-winning red rooster owned by a family on Mayflower Lane in Vineyard Haven was given permission Thursday to remain in the yard by the zoning board of appeals, ending a protracted neighborhood dispute.

At a largely procedural hearing Thursday, the board a granted a permit based on a compromise worked out between town counsel from Koppelman & Paige, P.C., and George Davis, a lawyer for Chickie’s owner Jessica Seidman.

The Vineyard yet again has several youth soccer teams excelling in the post-season, as the under-12 team heads to league finals, the under 14-team heads to semifinals and the under-16 team has already qualified for the Massachusetts Tournament of Champions (MTOC).

There is a kinetic movement to the Taste of the Vineyard, the annual feast and fund-raiser for the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust. It’s the giddy energy of hundreds of people who skipped lunch, and maybe breakfast, playing gourmand for the night. Sampling. Sipping. Spying what’s ahead. Suddenly it’s forget the forks; it’s just finger food, faster and faster, with less and less room in the belly, until finally, barely two hours after the tent doors opened, there’s no right move but to dance.