The Vineyard Haven side of Lagoon Pond will be closed to all bay scalloping beginning Monday, Nov. 5., to protect a large crop of juvenile scallops, the town shellfish constable said Wednesday morning.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank bank added 400 feet of white sand beachfront to its holdings in Vineyard Haven Friday with the purchase of a five-acre parcel near the mouth of Lake Tashmoo.

The longtime Island resident whose family legacy was tied directly to the early days of the civil rights movement, died Friday morning at her home in Vineyard Haven.

Steamship Authority governors hold their monthly meeting on the Vineyard this week with a full agenda, including an update on an independent review of operations that began this past summer. The meeting begins at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the high school Performing Arts Center.

The Lagoon Pond drawbridge was back in working order Monday evening after it was closed for more than three hours, rerouting traffic.

A post-summer report says tick populations are up, especially the newest species of disease-carrying arachnid to invade Martha’s Vineyard: the lone star tick.