Alice Northrop purchased 1 Goah Way in Vineyard Haven for $185,000 on May 29.

Peter Principato purchased 33 Abel’s Neck Road in Chilmark for $1,875,000 on May 29.

A dozen volunteers gathered at the Lagoon Pond last Saturday morning to do something no one could recall being done on the Vineyard. They came to harvest floating mats of algae in Mud Creek in Vineyard Haven. It was both an experiment and a beginning for an expanding effort to manage and improve the water quality in coastal ponds.

A hearing for Tisbury police officer Kelly Kershaw before the town selectmen has been rescheduled for Monday, June 10.

The hearing, initially scheduled for Tuesday, June 3, was postponed due to scheduling conflicts with Ms. Kershaw’s attorney, selectmen said after their Tuesday meeting. They did not note the specific nature of the hearing.

The Warren House, the rundown North Water street house owned by the town of Edgartown, finally has a bidder.

A group including Maggie White, the owner of Hob Knob Inn as well as construction and realty companies, submitted a two-option bid to restore the home into a single family residence early this week.

One bid would pay the town $1 million plus 40 per cent of the profits made from selling the house. A second offer would pay the town $1.25 million in cash.

The selectmen opted to take the bid under advisement and discuss it further at their June 17 meeting.

The boys’ varsity tennis team swept Seekonk for its first win of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association tournament Tuesday afternoon. The team plays Dover-Sherborn at 2 p.m. Wednesday at home in the semifinals.

The opening south section division three quarterfinals match lasted just under an hour.

Senior co-captain Justice Yennie at third singles blanked Seekonk’s Brandon Picket 6-0, 6-0. Minutes later seniors Ryan Sawyer and Justin Smith went  6-1, 6-0 against Brandon Costa and Michael Ferreira at second doubles.

In light of several renovation projects around the downtown area, the Oak Bluffs selectmen Monday reconsidered a longstanding town policy to prohibit downtown construction work from June 1 to Sept. 15.

At a special meeting, the selectmen adopted clarifying regulations to allow construction work inside buildings during the summer with several conditions, including no work on weekends and nights.

The General Services Administration, a federal entity that handles real estate transactions for the government, plans to list the Gay Head Light as excess property this summer and begin the transfer of ownership process, a spokesperson said Monday.

The notice of availability is expected to be posted by the General Services Administration on August 1, New England public affairs officer Patrick Sclafani said. The notice will allow the town of Aquinnah, another municipal group or nonprofit organization, to apply for ownership of the property. The transfer would come at no cost.

Robin Forte, Island Grown Schools’ Harvest of the Month guest chef for the Edgartown School, moved through the lunch room with a tray of asparagus roll-ups for students to try. As she moved from table to table she saw a pattern emerging, one that has become familiar through the course of this first year of our Harvest of the Month program. The children at first would politely say “No, thank you” to the taste test. Then one student would venture, “I’ll try it,” and then each person in turn around the table would say the same thing.

I’m sitting on the Vineyard waiting for the wind to let go so the ferries will start running again so I can drive up to Boston to meet my wife who is in a hotel, also waiting for the wind to die down. When we lived on one of the small islands in Gosnold, the transportation situation was entirely different. The regular ferry service is privately owned and not under the same scrutiny as the Steamship Authority.