The Edgartown board of health this week took enforcement action against a Chappaquiddick homeowner who has advertised his Sampson’s Hill properties as luxury vacation rentals, saying the homes may exceed their allowed septic capacity.

In a June 12 letter, health agent Matthew Poole told Stephen Olsson that the board of health is concerned that his Chapel avenue and Chappaquiddick avenue homes are being marketed “for rental occupancy significantly in excess of the permitted septic system design capacities.”

After a tense vicious dog hearing Tuesday, the Oak Bluffs selectmen ordered the owner of an American Staffordshire terrier to keep the dog muzzled and leashed after she severely injured another dog.

During the hearing, which took more than an hour, some of the selectmen and the town animal inspector advocated for euthanizing the dog.

The former chairman of the Edgartown dredge committee said this week that he would take full responsibility for an $8,000 fine levied against the town by the state Department of Environmental Protection for an unauthorized dredge project in Katama Bay early this year.

Edgartown has been fined more than $8,000 by the state Department of Environmental Protection in response to unauthorized dredging that occurred in January in Katama Bay, though an environmental assessment showed few long-term impacts from the project.

Town counsel Ronald Rappaport told the selectmen Monday that the fine, which was originally $16,320, was reduced by 50 per cent because of “good faith actions promptly taken by the town.”

An Edgartown woman was charged with drunken driving Friday after a single car crash left the car submerged in the water by the big bridge in Oak Bluffs.

Ashley Peters, 22, was charged with drunken driving, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, marked lanes violation and speeding in the crash at 12:50 a.m. Friday, state police Sgt. Thomas Medeiros said.

Ms. Peters, who was driving toward Edgartown on Beach Road, veered to the right just before the big bridge and into the water, Sgt. Medeiros said.

In the wake of the overwhelming votes this spring in five Island towns against the controversial roundabout project, a longtime member of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission has called for the regional planning agency to revisit its own position on the plan.

At the end of the MVC meeting Thursday night, Leonard Jason Jr. announced his intention to request a new vote on the controversial roundabout planned for the blinker intersection in Oak Bluffs.