The independent review of the Steamship Authority looked at five major areas of SSA operations and found serious deficiencies in four.

The governing board for the boat line agreed Tuesday to hold additional meetings over the winter months to discuss the 140-page independent review.

The Steamship Authority needs to change its management culture or face more potentially dangerous disruptions in service, the leader of a five-month study of boat line operations said Monday.

A independent review of the SSA describes an organization so focused on saving money and reacting to emergencies that it has failed to follow basic business practices.

The Carnegie, Edgartown’s former public library on North Water street, has opened a short-term gallery show with new works by well-known Island artists including Allen Whiting, Jeanne Staples and Margot Datz.

On Thursday, more than 450 people sat down together in the West Tisbury School gymnasium for a farm-to-table meal and some live music from a school alumnus.