The membership of the Martha's Vineyard Rod & Gun Club paid tribute to two of its founding members at a dinner in their honor on Wednesday night. W. Howard Andrews Jr., 79, and Edward G. Tyra, 85, both of Edgartown, were treated to numerous accolades.

Club president Bob DeLisle stood before more than 60 people in the clubhouse and talked about how Mr. Andrews and Mr. Tyra had long been supporters of the club through good and bad times. They are directors emeritus.

A federal mediator yesterday waded into the dispute between officials in Aquinnah and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) over the tribe's plans to form its own police force.

The purple and white bumper stickers are somewhat primitive, produced on a home computer with no stickum, so they have to be fixed to bumpers with Scotch tape. But if bumper stickers that fall off in the rain carry a message about the group that made them, then in this case the message is grass roots and underfunded.

Add to that, committed.

Edgartown Planning Board Faces Dilemma on Size of Mansions

By MANDY LOCKE

The Edgartown planning board is torn.

The fracture - slow yet certain - led to a tense clash last week.

Only one item appeared on the board's agenda - a project that has inched toward a vote since Richard Schifter filed his intentions with the board last spring.

Chilmark residents interested in owning a home may find the going a little easier since voters at a special town meeting Monday night approved a significant rewriting of zoning bylaws to create new homesites in the years ahead.

The special town meeting at the Chilmark Community Center drew 174 voters.

Let Good Times Roll for Grads in Class of 1960

By C.K. WOLFSON

The cheerleaders are now grandmothers.

And they're celebrating. It's a communal 60th birthday party hosted by Island members of the Class of 1960 - the first graduating class of Martha's Vineyard Regional High School.