With little disagreement, Chilmark voters sped through a 22-article warrant at their annual town meeting in one hour flat on Monday, pausing only for a bit of debate over whether to continue the town’s participation in the Massachusetts Estuaries Project.

Island resident and rock photographer Jim Shive takes the microphone today, April 23, as guest deejay on Sirius XM’s E Street Radio broadcast. The show airs at 4 p.m. and again tomorrow at 8 a.m.

The Martha’s Vineyard Doors Collaborative will host a three-class grant writing and research workshop at the Oak Bluffs Library’s Martha’s Vineyard Nonprofit Resource Center on April 23 and 24. The workshop includes hands-on training on the Foundation Center’s online directory of over 100,000 funders, which is available free of charge at the Resource Center.

The cost, underwritten by the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower
Foundation, is $20 and includes lunch and refreshments. Though the
workshop is open to anyone, attendance is limited to 30 people.

April is poetry month, and to celebrate the West Tisbury Library’s is holding its annual community poetry night on Sunday, April 22 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

West Tisbury’s newest poet laureate, Justin Ahren will be on hand to help out anyone and everyone who wants to read, listen or both.

Refreshments will be served and reader order will be determined, as per usual, by drawing names out of a hat. For more information, call 508-693-3366.

A prominent Island insurance executive and well-known Chilmark resident was arrested and charged this week with child molestation, stemming from incidents in West Tisbury and Chilmark in which he allegedly exposed himself to a child.

The cruise ship Balmoral, involved in a much publicized transatlantic commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, has docked today in Oak Bluffs waters. The cruise ship left England on April 8 and followed the ill fated ship’s same route, arriving in New York. From there, passengers have been treated to an extended journey to Martha’s Vineyard, where they will today explore the Martha’s Vineyard Campground.

It’s Sheepapalooza time again. On Saturday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Farm Institute is reveling in all things sheepie.

Morning chores begin at 9 a.m., followed by sheep shearing, fiber arts, lunch (play with sheep, eat sheep), farm tours and dog herding demonstrations.

The event takes place rain or shine. Cost is $10 per family, or $5 per individual.

For more details, visit farminstitute.org or call 508-627-7007.

The Edgartown police department will welcome two new members this summer.

On Tuesday police chief Antone Bettencourt told the selectmen that with officer Alex Elias leaving for another job, Oak Bluffs police officer Jeffrey Trudel will be joining the Edgartown force on May 14. Mr. Trudel is assigned to the K-9 unit for Martha’s Vineyard Law Enforcement Council, working with his black Labrador, Buster. Aquinnah Det. Ryan Ruley will also join the Edgartown department, effective June 18. Mr. Bettencourt said both men will later be sworn in before the board.

Edgartown School principal John Stevens has announced the honor roll for the third quarter of the 2011-2012 academic year.

Eighth grade high honors go to Renato Gomes, Samantha Hargy, Jared Livingston and Sara Poggi.

Eighth grade honors go to James DiMattia, Alexandra Ellis, Elliot Ferland, Olivia Green-Lingren, Elizabeth Hayman, Jacquelyn Hegarty, Marlla Lemos, Amadine Muniz and Ian Shea.

Seventh grade high honors go to Kylie Hatt, Erin Hill, Abigail Lively, Paulo Pereira, Sarah Pertile, Joshua Tate- Da Silva and Lucy Ulyatt.

Twelve years ago, as transcriptionist Sara Crafts remembers it, a “nice couple” walked into her home office in Oak Bluffs and asked if she could type up a series of extended photo captions for a forthcoming book. She took the job, not knowing it would lead to a life-changing collaboration.