Another piece of what probably was a large wooden sailing ship has been uncovered in the wash at Wasque.

Last week, The Trustees of Reservations staff and onlookers discovered a large piece of wood. Now there is a second, washing up nearer to the Wasque parking lot than the first.

Many speculate that both are remains of the 300-foot, six-masted schooner Mertie B. Crowley that sank there 100 years ago.

The Chilmark Police Department recently shut down a longtime party barn for teens after a source led them to photos of the location on Facebook. The photos were posted on the social networking Web site by the very kids who took part in the booze-infused parties held there, begging the question: Why post a public record of illegal or unsavory behavior in the first place?

Against the strong objections of the chairman of the finance advisory committee, and one of its own members, the Oak Bluffs selectmen on Tuesday voted to adopt a $24.5 million budget for next year, approving several budget overrides and putting salary increases for town and school employees back into the budget at the last minute.

The view from the Tashmoo overlook, one of the great vistas of Martha’s Vineyard, has been restored, after the owners of a number of large trees finally bowed to pressure from the town of Tisbury and allowed the chainsaws in yesterday.

The removal of several of the largest trees, whose growth was gradually obliterating the view across Lake Tashmoo and Vineyard Sound, may end years of dispute between the town and Thomas and Ginny Payette of Tashmoo Farm.

The Island Food Pantry unfortunately broke another new record last week. In a span of three days, the pantry gave food to 184 Vineyarders. Of the three days, Monday, March 1 was the largest, with 74 recipients.

Though the snow is gone for now, and the coldest days could be past, “this is the tightest squeeze of the year,” said Armen Hanjian, who heads the nonprofit organziation that provides free food for the Island’s indigent. Work and finer weather have yet to arrive.

Thirty-five years ago, at the end of the Viet Nam war, there was a mass evacuation of Vietnamese orphans who had been adopted by Americans and other nationalities. One of the parents anxiously waiting for news of Operation Babylift was one William Delahunt.

It was a nerve-racking time. Mr. Delahunt thought his new adopted daughter was on the first flight out. Then he learned the first flight crashed.

But despair turned to joy. She was safe on the second flight. And so the Delahunts gained a daughter, Kara Mai.

Three different start-up companies are pursuing plans to radically expand the Island’s broadband connections, and in the process dramatically improve the Island’s cell phone, Internet and cable television service.

OpenCape Corp, based in West Barnstable, is planning a wireless network with 350 miles of fiber-optic cable connecting more than 60 anchor institutions: hospitals, schools, municipalities and research institutions where direct connections to the network will be built.

Okay, so maybe what the residents of Cuttyhunk were doing in order to get their high-speed Internet service was not strictly legal, but goodness, it was clever. It showed, they will tell you, the sort of inventiveness that made America great.

But Comcast doesn’t see it that way. To the giant telecommunications company, what the Cuttyhunkers did was theft, pure and simple. And so they have pulled the plug on the islanders, casting them back into the dark ages, online-communications-wise.

A Menemsha charter fishing boat was damaged in a boatyard fire on the mainland last Saturday. Scott McDowell said his 35-foot Duffy boat Lauren C sustained significant heat damage to her port side quarter as well as light damage to the pilot house.

The fire took place at Niemiec Marine, at Pope’s Island, a boatyard located on an island in the harbor between New Bedford and Fairhaven. Another boat was completely destroyed, while a second was significantly burned. Mr. McDowell’s boat was in proximity, but the heat from the fire was significant.

The Army Corps of Engineers will spend $5 million to resume clearing unexploded bombs left behind on Vineyard beaches during World War II training exercises.

The money will be used to locate munitions in four shoreline areas on Chappaquiddick, Edgartown and West Tisbury owned by The Trustees of Reservations and the state: Little Neck at Cape Pogue, Norton Point, Long Point Wildlife Refuge in West Tisbury and South Beach in Edgartown.