It was good news and bad news for two Island libraries Thursday morning — the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners awarded a grant to the West Tisbury library for building a new facility, but Edgartown did not make the cut and will receive no funding.

Eight out of 27 towns that applied for grant money received awards, announced yesterday morning. West Tisbury placed eighth on the list, while Edgartown was number 11. The town of Athol was number one on the list.

A large number of beaches have been closed to swimming in Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury due to high levels of enterococcus bacteria found during routine water testing. Health agents in those two towns have put out notices about the closures.

In West Tisbury the following beaches are closed to swimming: Lambert’s Cove, Seth’s Pond, Salt Works at Seven Gates Farm, Long Cove Pond, Long Point at the ocean and the Tisbury Great Pond at the Trustees of Reservations.

Edgartown attorney Edward W. (Peter) Vincent Jr. was suspended from practicing law on Thursday, following complaints of misuse and loss of client funds.

The suspension was issued in Supreme Judicial Court in Suffolk County on July 7.

The temporary suspension will stay in effect until disciplinary procedures are heard before the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers. The next step would be the filing of charges with the board, which has the power to disbar attorneys.

Summer sunset at Menemsha drew a different kind of crowd on Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of the Coast Guard boathouse fire. A large crowd of Chilmark community leaders and residents gathered to mark the formal opening and dedication of the rebuilt connector pier that was destroyed in last year’s fire.

Selectman Warren Doty set a tone of reflection and appreciation early in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

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A Coral Gables, Fla., woman remained in critical condition in a Boston hospital Monday after she was struck by a car while crossing Upper Main street in Edgartown on foot on Saturday night.

Patricia Guarch, 22, who is working at the Vineyard Arts Project on Upper Main street for the summer, was crossing the street on her way to get ice cream, just after 10 p.m. Saturday, when she was struck by a 2010 Subaru Outback. The driver of the car was Robert Franklin, 85, of Vineyard Haven.

When Vineyard Haven throws itself a birthday party, everybody’s invited.

And when the birthday party comes in the form of the annual Tisbury Street Fair, nothing stands in the way of a good time — not even inclement weather.

Look at Britain around the turn of the 20th century, or Napoleonic France in the early 1800s, or Spain in the late 1500s. Or so many other great powers of their times, before they went into decline.

Now look at the United States of America, in the early part of the 21st century. When R. Nicholas Burns does, he sees a worrying pattern.

“They were brought down, most of them, by the fact that they couldn’t afford it any more,” the veteran diplomat told a capacity crowd at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Thursday.

A 10-knot north-northeast breeze made for a dramatic morning start of the Edgartown Yacht Club’s annual ’Round the Island Race on Saturday. A total of 47 sailboats of varying sizes converged for five starts in the 67-mile race, the best in years.

Sailboats came from all around the region, but it was one sailboat, Ceilidh, a 39-foot sloop, from Chester, Nova Scotia that became the race’s favorite. A rear commodore from Chester Yacht Club, Captain Randy Stevens, and his crew won first place in the Class 3 PHRF, a nonspinnaker division.

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has filed a lawsuit to try to block the development of the Cape Wind project on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound.

In a statement issued Friday, the tribe announced the tribal government had authorized the long-threatened lawsuit against the Department of the Interior‘s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, which has approved the 130-turbine wind farm.