A ground-breaking ceremony for the new building under construction at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services in Oak Bluffs drew close to 100 people Friday afternoon, including local officials, tribal leaders, MVCS staff and board members.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission is fast-tracking its review of a proposal by the Martha’s Vineyard Airport to renovate and expand the terminal in West Tisbury.

Martha’s Vineyard Community Services will formally break ground Friday on construction of a new building that will include a wing named for author William Styron and his widow, poet Rose Styron, who still lives in the couple’s Vineyard Haven home.

On Wednesday evening during part two of the annual town meeting, Tisbury voters unanimously approved the town’s $41.6 million budget for fiscal year 2026.

The Island Community Chorus returns to the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown this weekend, with a pair of concerts centered on the 1964 liturgical work Misa Criolla by Argentinian composer Ariel Ramírez.

In the first night of a double-barreled Tisbury town meeting Tuesday, voters passed an amended leaf blower bylaw, scaled back plans for new moorings, and shot down a $450,000 warrant article for renovations to the house at Tashmoo Spring.

Tisbury’s new harbor master is Islander Michael Gately, who is expected to start his job next week following a unanimous select board vote on Monday afternoon.

Vital counseling for Island veterans will continue at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, funded by donors who have contributed enough to keep the program going after its federal contract ends on June 30.

The Rev. Vincent G. (Father Chip) Seadale, pastor of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Edgartown, is retiring to Florida next week after more than a decade and a half of Island ministry.

Voters will decide whether to give the town administrator more power over municipal hiring, finance and information technology at the annual town meeting Tuesday.