The Tisbury selectmen lowered the tax rate for businesses, agreed to review a draft warrant article to introduce beer and wine in town and took steps to regulate taxi companies more efficiently in a three-and-a-half hour meeting on Tuesday night.

It was a sight unseen for the last two years on Main street, Vineyard Haven: the easy conversation amongst friends standing outside the Capawock theatre after a movie, bathed in the yellow light of the old-fashioned building with green and red trim.

A quarter century ago, an elderly woman lived in an unwinterized house on Lambert's Cove Road with no running water and no car.

Oak Bluffs, Charter School Perform Well While Edgartown Scores Are Poor on Math, English Skills Exam Results released yesterday by the state Department of Education show the Vineyard's six elementary schools turned out an uneven performance on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, ranging from 100 per cent of Charter School eighth graders scoring advanced or proficient in English language arts to a third of students failing math in the Edgartown fifth and six grades.

Enrollment in the Vineyard public schools has dropped for the sixth year in a row, according to school census figures released this week.

The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School class of 2008 scored significantly above the statewide average on the mathematics portion of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, and scored well above average in English language arts, according to results released Wednesday by the Massachusetts Department of Education.