The disappearance of pay phones around the Island has raised public safety concerns in Tisbury and Edgartown.

In Tisbury, town officials pay a monthly fee to keep a pay phone working at the somewhat remote Park and Ride parking lot near the town water tower.

When the pay phone was removed from in front of the Edgartown police station this fall, officers inside had to rethink the way the public reaches the police after hours, when no one is at the station.

There is no store where you can order parts for the Flying Horses, the oldest operating carousel in the United States. So in Mike (Panhead) Fuss’s motorcycle workshop in Vineyard Haven, a space almost hidden from view at the end of a dead-end lane, where parked motorcycles announce his business better than the Offshore Cycle signs, 132-year-old cast iron parts sit on a bench. Small chips of bronze and steel are on the floor. The air smells of cutting oil. A shiny gold-colored cylinder spins on a lathe. Moving his fingers delicately on the crank, Mr.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission agreed last week that a full review of the revised plan for Bradley Square is in order and set a public hearing for early next month.

At its regular meeting Thursday night the full commission disagreed with the recommendation of its land use planning committee, which on Monday voted to recommend that a new public hearing is not warranted for the revised Bradley Square plan.