Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha’s Vineyard has received Medicare certification, and is also expanding its bereavement counseling services to include children who have lost loved ones

Donaroma’s — the Edgartown landscape maintenance company, wholesaler and nursery — is setting roots in Oak Bluffs for the first time, with plans to open up a retail and wholesale operation on a large plot of cleared farmland off the Vineyard Haven-Edgartown Road.

Buoyed by more than $28 million in newly-available federal funding, the Steamship Authority is preparing to buy a third vessel from Louisiana-based Hornbeck Offshore Services.

The Dukes County Commission voted last week to request $600,000 from the Island towns for a renovation to the Vineyard Health Care Access Program building on New York avenue in Oak Bluffs.

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School committee voted unanimously in favor of letting the Island's winter homeless shelter return to school-owned property at Martha's Vineyard Community Services.

The Martha's Vineyard Commission's expanding legal budget was broached at the Edgartown select board meeting Monday, as town officials weighed the financial impacts of the commission's recent flurry of legal challenges.