The Oak Bluffs planning board approved an amended special permit to allow development of the subdivision to move forward, with conditions including a $700,000 affordable housing donation.

A county resolution setting $15 minimum wage for contractors complicates an agreement with The Trustees of Reservations to manage Norton Point Beach.

About 100 people gathered at the historic Carnegie building, which lent its last book Friday evening, to symbolically begin the move to the new Edgartown Library near the town’s school.

Escalating concern about the heroin epidemic, and how the Island is dealing with support for addicts and their families, was discussed.

The widely-admired Cape and Islands legislator will not run for reelection in the district he has represented since 2008. A Nantucket resident, Mr. Madden said he wants to spend more time at home.

A $45,000 electric bill? Oak Bluffs town officials were scratching their heads this week over just that. The mystery bill from Eversource dates to 2009.