The annual Possible Dreams Auction, the Island’s signature summer charity event that has sustained Martha’s Vineyard Community Services for more than three decades, is heading back to the seaside and will take place this year in Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs, allowing the event to expand its capacity as the economy hammers philanthropy across the country.

Auction organizers will announce the venue change today.

On the eve of contract negotiations with the town, Tisbury police chief John Cashin yesterday mounted an extraordinary attack on dissident members of his own department, threatening to sue some officers for defamation over a whispering campaign against him.

He also accused one of the selectmen — whom he declined to name but who was identified by several other sources as Jeff Kristal — of undermining his authority by interceding on behalf of an officer Chief Cashin wanted to discipline for abuse of sick leave entitlements.

Over the past 15 years, Alison Berlow’s trajectory from stay-at-home mom to radio essayist, to founder and executive director of the Island Grown Initiative and, most recently, the editor of Edible Vineyard, has been inextricably tied with the rising fortunes of the local food movement.

Question: What do art and women’s reproductive health services have in common? Answer: One supports the other.