The old-fashioned practice of allowing some customers to hold house accounts at Cronig’s Market will be getting a high-tech twist in the coming weeks, as customers will have to use a fingerprint identification system in order to access their accounts.

The grocery store offers house accounts as a courtesy to certain customers, and up until recently the practice caused few problems or disruptions.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission last Thursday postponed a vote on Vineyard Haven resident Donald Muckerheide’s proposal for 12-unit condominium development on Dukes County avenue in Oak Bluffs, voting instead to send the project to the commission’s land use planning committee.

Mr. Muckerheide, who has a history of animosity with the commission, left the hearing midway through deliberations.

West Tisbury selectmen on Wednesday held a dog hearing for a Siberian husky that recently got loose and attacked a neighbor’s livestock. Selectmen voted 2-1 to impose restrictions for the dog, named Coda, and his owner Chase Marcello. The restrictions call for the animal to be kept in a secure pen with a chain link fence.

If Coda is found loose again, selectmen stipulated, they may order the dog to be humanely euthanized.

Martha’s Vineyard’s two community banks face hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra costs as a result of increased demands from the federal agency charged with protecting customer deposits.

The two local banks, the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank and Edgartown National Bank, neither of which was complicit in the reckless financial practices which precipitated the banking crisis, will nonetheless have to pay increased fees to help bail out customers of banks which go bust.