Edgartown energy committee chairman Kitt Johnson outlined a priority list for projects before the town selectmen on Monday. The most complex and expensive is an experimental tidal energy project that hinges on the completion of an extensive pilot plant application due at the end of February. The idea was introduced in early 2007, when Edgartown joined forces with Nantucket and Cong. William Delahunt to pursue energy independence. At the time, the town expected extra research money to be provided to establish an offshore energy zone between the two Islands.

Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss’ $3.5 million dollar budget was approved with little ado by the all-Island school committee this week, a month after the committee voted to restore $11,000 in funding to the budget for arts and enrichment programming across the Island.

The superintendent’s budget is called a shared services budget because it includes funding for programs such as the elementary strings and natural history and arts programs in Island schools.

Sometimes it takes a village, not only to raise a child, but to keep that child going through adulthood and beyond. That’s the idea behind Vineyard Village at Home — a program that connects elderly Vineyarders with a network of service providers who help ease the challenge of living independently on the Island.

Island kids won’t have to complain about being banished to the children’s table for Thanksgiving dinner this year. Two days later, they’re invited to be the guests of honor at a feast of their own — the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival’s Family Film Feast event at the Chilmark Community Center.

After nearly two years of rejections and revisions, Aquinnah voters agreed at a special town meeting on Tuesday night to adopt a bylaw to regulate private and public wind turbines. Crafted as an amendment to the townwide district of critical planning concern, the bylaw is the first of its kind to be adopted on the Vineyard.

But approval did not come without a wide-ranging debate that was at times passionate.

“If you believe in global warming, I think you should pass this,” declared selectman Jim Newman.