The future setting of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum is the subject of a meeting tonight of its board of directors. The 26-member board will discuss whether to continue with an ambitious $27 million capital plan to relocate the museum to West Tisbury, or to move operations to the Edgartown school. Alternatively, the board could scrap both proposals and stay put at its original campus on the corner of School and Cooke streets in Edgartown.

A bare quorum of Edgartown voters ran through a packed warrant at a special town meeting Tuesday night, approving all 20 articles in under an hour, most with little discussion.

At final count 196 voters turned out to the elementary school cafeteria to approve spending for an eminent domain purchase for more town cemetery space and research for a public-private sewering partnership with the Island Grove subdivision, among other issues. Town moderator Philip J. Norton Jr. presided with typical efficiency.

A meaty 20-article warrant will confront voters at an Edgartown special town meeting Tuesday, addressing a proposed trust and accompanying bylaw to govern affordable housing and the potential town acquisition of 180 feet of private beach at Cow Bay, among other issues.

The meeting is set to begin at 7 p.m. at the Edgartown elementary school; moderator Philip J. Norton Jr. will preside.

Chief among the articles is a proposal to extend the Bend of the Road Beach by leasing 180 yards of beach at Cow Bay.

A $16.4 million Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School budget for 2009, a 1.7 per cent increase on the previous year, was certified by the high school committee Monday in a 9-1 vote.

The budget cuts five and two fifths positions at the high school, in English and math, assistant in special education, custodial and driver’s education. Additionally, Mr. Nixon eliminated two fifths of a bus driving position.

As a reporter I have been close to the now somewhat famous cop turkey-shoot that occurred on Old Ridge Road in Chilmark last Father’s Day.

Last week, though, I got too close.

I drove up-Island one chilly afternoon looking for Jonathan Haar, the Chilmark resident who was arrested following the shooting. He had taken a swing at one of the police officers at the scene, and later explained he knew the turkey personally.