Island police broke up several loud parties, made a number of arrests and responded to a high number of motor vehicle accidents over the weekend.

Edgartown

Edgartown police responded to 96 calls for service from early Friday morning through late Sunday.

Writing From the Heart

Writing coach Nancy Slonim Aronie will conduct a mini-workshop for aspiring writers at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, July 1 at 5:30 p.m.

Writing From The Heart: Finding Your Own Voice is a workshop that is nurturing for the beginning writer and a jump-start for the burnt-out professional. Admission is free. For details, call 508-645-3360.

Herb Foster Talk

Herb Foster will give a free talk at the Edgartown library, A Tale of Two Languages: Yiddish and Jive in American English, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 30.

The financial cost of the most recent round of feuding within the Tisbury police department and the related departure of former chief John Cashin is finally available, and it is more than $30,000.

Some eight weeks after Mr. Cashin went public with the extraordinary criticisms of his “dysfunctional” department which cost him his job, the town this week released details of his severance package.

When the telephone rings at suppertime it may be a telemarketer. Or it may be a professional fund-raiser looking for money for a local police or sheriff’s organization. In recent days a small army of solicitors has begun canvassing the Island by telephone looking for donations.

Full of zest, a group of sixth and seventh grade students from the Bronx, N.Y., took charge of Katama Farm early this week in the Farm Institute’s first-ever residential program.

Fifty-one Bronx Academy of Letters students arrived on the farm Monday for a three-day introduction to farming, gardening, cooking and livestock management.

Dean’s List

Bridgewater State College has announced the spring dean’s list, which includes, from Chilmark, Michael Pachico, and from Vineyard Haven, Jai Berger, Colleen Campbell, Dawne Charters-Nelson and Matthew Montanile.

Hello, Chandler

Heidi Savage Blau and J.B. Scott Blau of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Chandler Savage Blau, born on June 26, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Chandler weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth.

Ravaging of the river herring population by midwater trawlers and an absence of round-the-clock environmental police protection were the hot topics at a meeting between Cape and Islands Rep. Tim Madden and members of the newly formed Martha’s Vineyard Dukes County Fishermen’s Association Friday.

The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital ended its fiscal year with a sharp drop in operating profits, although with year-end gains well north of $600,000, the institution remains comfortably in the black, defying predictions early this year of an operating deficit.

And like virtually every person and institution with money invested in stocks and bonds this year, on paper the hospital lost an enormous amount of value — more than $3 million — on its protected endowment monies.