After receiving preliminary designs for the Carnegie Building and the old Edgartown School two weeks ago, the Edgartown Library building committee asked architects this week to come up with a smaller program and a smaller budget. The committee is hoping to see new design ideas at their weekly meeting this coming Monday.

Edgartown selectmen are exploring possible sites for an ambitious solar panel project that if built could provide power to all the town’s municipal buildings.

Contract negotiations between the All-Island School Committee and school secretaries have stalled and will go to mediation at the end of the month, Vineyard Schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss announced this week.

“It’s taking far too long,” Mr. Weiss told Island newspapers on Monday afternoon. “This is my second negotiation with these groups, and we’ve never even come close to mediation with any other group. This is a unique circumstance.”

Talks have been under way between the two sides for seven months.

The Aquinnah selectmen this week granted a town oyster farmer a reprieve and a conditional lease to continue her work in Menemsha Pond. Roxanne Ackerman’s five-year lease was revoked by the selectmen in June due to bags and debris washing ashore on private and public beaches, but at their meeting Tuesday the board took a slightly softer approach.

After some time spent discussing process and failed communication on all sides, selectmen agreed to give Ms. Ackerman, a longtime oyster farmer, a second chance.

All except board chairman Camille Rose.

In a room behind the teller line at the Edgartown National Bank is a door into a 10-by-6-foot structure. It looks like an ordinary wood frame door, with molding and an antique doorknob, until you try to open it. Careful, it’s easy to fall over when opening the 560-pound door to the old safe that dates back to the 1850s.

School enrollment on the Island remains relatively flat with last year, according to a census released this week.

The school census is done each year on Oct. 1 for the five elementary schools and one regional high school.

Total enrollment is 2,019, the same as last year, although enrollment is up and down at various schools.

Chilmark, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and Edgartown all have more students. The most significant increase is in Chilmark which has 13 more students for a total of 53 students in the K through 5 school.