With time running out on the formal legislative session for the year, a revised bill to overhaul the outdated Massachusetts Public Records Law was inching its way out of a joint committee and toward a possible vote this week.

Jenni Oliver, the Edgartown painter and illustrator whose graceful work appeared on covers of The New Yorker, died at home at on Oct. 29. The cause was complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

The Martha’s Vineyard airport commission chairman said major strides have been made to correct deficiencies found by the FAA earlier this year. Meanwhile, a protracted legal dispute looms with embattled airport manager Sean Flynn.

The widely-admired matriarch of the musical Taylor family died Saturday at her home overlooking Stonewall Beach in Chilmark, surrounded by family and friends. She was one month shy of her 93rd birthday. The cause was complications of old age.

Continuing an upward tick in high-end real estate sales on the Vineyard this year, a single-family home at Crackatuxet Cove in Edgartown sold last week for $21 million. The sale marks the third transaction north of $20 million in the past 10 months, all in Edgartown.

Olga Hirshhorn’s Chicken Alley art show raised large sums for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services through the years. She was 95.