Edgartown voters easily approved $4.9 million in funding for a new town library, along with dozens of other spending requests during a lengthy annual town meeting Tuesday night.

With a gathering of 305 voters at the Old Whaling Church, town meeting members approved most of the items on the 63-article annual town meeting warrant and a 12-article special town meeting warrant.

There was debate and also compromise at the West Tisbury annual town meeting Tuesday night, where a record turnout of voters overwhelmingly backed a new town library and a dredging plan for the Mill Pond, and found a middle ground on paving town roads and allowing dogs on Lambert’s Cove Beach.

Three hundred and seventy-eight voters packed the elementary school gymnasium for the four-hour session, presided over by moderator F. Patrick Gregory.

Tisbury voters rejected the controversial $3 million connector road proposal at their annual town meeting this week, ultimately convinced by critics of the project that it was too expensive for the town.

Mike Wallace, the CBS newsman who was a household name across America and a longtime summer resident of the Vineyard, died on April 7 at the age of 93. The familiar television anchorman for the CBS Sunday evening show 60 Minutes was also a familiar figure on the Island, where he had visited since boyhood and later owned a home on Hatch Road in Vineyard Haven. The house was sold late last year after Mr. Wallace’s health had declined to the point where he no longer came here.

At Coffee Obsession in Woods Hole on Wednesday morning, Dr. David Gallo, director of special projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), thumbed through the pictures on his iPad. But they weren’t of family members or far-flung vacations. Instead he pulled up a high-resolution photo mosaic he took of the RMS Titanic, settled in its lonely repose at the bottom of the Atlantic.

Please Adopt Us

For some time the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard has been without a single dog looking for a home, but as of this week we have just one — an adorable little pug named Rascal who is eight years old and as sweet as can be. Rascal loves people and Gordon at the shelter is so happy that he now has a dog to walk; we all hope anyone looking for a small wonderfully good-natured dog will come see Rascal. And you can take him for a walk!

The hall was filled with people, the message from the minister powerful.

“Go and testify to the way God works, for that is what Jesus’s life, ministry, death and resurrection is all about,” said the Rev. Cathlin Baker to conclude the Easter service last Sunday morning. “Jesus showed us the way God works. And so now we know — life overcomes death, and love conquers sin. We are Easter people, people who are to bring hope to the world, to bring light from the shadows. So go and tell, go and tell.”

John S. Alley

phone number

(alleys@vineyard.net)

JUNE D. MANNING

508-645-2574

(lthslnks2004@yahoo.com)

The warm weather has returned again this week and has brought families to their summer residences for brief stays to enjoy the warmth and sunshine. Anne Vanderhoop Madison and her family are getting busy preparing to open the Aquinnah Shop; Berta Welch and her sister, Carla Cuch, have opened Stony Creek Gifts for the season; Marshall Lee and Martha Vanderhoop are opening their HatMarChar Shop soon. There are many visitors each day to the cliffs.

HOLLY NADLER

508-274-2329

(hollynadler@gmail.com)