Just after lunchtime on Saturday, Gregg Harcourt and his wife Mary Wolverton will begin poking around the Katharine Cornell Theatre, managing the tangle of wires and soundboards that come with producing a major concert. For well over a decade the duo — both professional woodworkers by day — have been not only managing the A/V equipment, but have served as the organizers, promoters and occasional performers of a concert series that has brought some of the world’s biggest and most respected names in traditional music to Martha’s Vineyard.

Oak Bluffs voters agreed this week to slash the town’s 2011 budget by a quarter of a million dollars, wiping out a deficit that has frustrated town officials since the start of the new year.

“Here we are again,” said town administrator Michael Dutton at the opening of the special town meeting on Tuesday night before asking the voters to cut $249,666 from the town’s fiscal year 2011 budget.

Wind, tides and sun are intense subjects for discussion on the Island these days and it’s not all talk about the weather. Alternative energy projects are under way on so many fronts, both private and public, that it is sometimes hard to keep track of them all. But the Vineyard is moving ahead on three projects independently to generate electricity for its own needs, beginning with wind farms.

A Martha’s Vineyard Hospital plan to create two new large parking lots has residents of the surrounding Oak Bluffs neighborhood on edge over the institution’s continued expansion.