The county commission voted to return longtime member Don Ogilvie to the airport commission, and picked Dona Flamme, a Chilmark resident and pilot, to take a second seat vacated by Kristin Zern.

The mass firing of probationary employees at federal agencies and other cuts by the Trump administration reached the epicenter of marine research for the Cape and Islands last week.

There will be at least two new Vineyard select board members this year as the Island’s annual town elections continue to take shape. 

In a trio of bills filed earlier this year, State Rep. Thomas Moakley requested more staff for the Edgartown District Court, a year-long study into the staffing levels and the condition of the 1858 courthouse, and better access to the state’s housing court for the Vineyard and Nantucket. 

On Sunday, officials confirmed that the turbine at the southernmost end of the Vineyard Wind lease off Martha’s Vineyard was apparently hit by lightning late last week, damaging the already broken blade.