The Seafood Shanty will have to keep the noise down this summer, the Edgartown selectmen decided Monday.

Responding to complaints from neighbors over the past five years, selectmen voted to require the harborfront restaurant to contain the volume of live music on the property.

By the start of next school year, Island students could see a hefty price cut for off-Island trips, if the school committee approves a new pay structure in which groups pay only the direct costs associated with the trips. The new design would cut field trip costs in half, down to $200 per trip.

You’d think that with all the planning that goes into a new project — a feature film at that — filmmaker Taylor Toole might set aside his other work and focus on the task at hand. But fresh off a grand prize win for his 2009 feature Mow Crew at Connecticut’s Kent Film Festival, and a series of screenings at the Capawock Theatre of his recent short featuring Island skateboarder Nick Briggs, Mr. Toole has set to work organizing a casting call for a film he plans to shoot on-Island this summer.

Island van tour owner Ron Minkin can now count Chilmark among the towns on his route, after the selectmen approved his street license for the coming summer.

The approval stipulates that Mr. Minkin limit his Martha’s Vineyard Transport LLC fleet to 14-passenger vans, and that no tours run through Menemsha after 5 p.m., to avoid congestion from the swarm of visitors that come to enjoy the Menemsha sunsets.

The numbers have finally come through on Island energy savings during Earth Hour, the annual worldwide event that called for people to shut down all non-essential lights and electronics for one hour on the evening of March 29. But despite widespread publicity and verbal support on the Island, NStar reports showed that the Vineyard registered zero impact on energy use during Earth Hour.