On Tuesday the town of Oak Bluffs will ask exhausted voters once more to come out to exercise their civic duty at a special town meeting. This time voters will be asked to transfer over $216,000 to cover the current fiscal year budget shortfalls including $106,000 from the town’s so-called “rainy day” fund to cover unforeseen health insurance costs.

A decade after a seminal study showing the magnitude of the Vineyard’s housing crisis — in facts and figures, resident surveys and census data — a collection of Island affordable housing groups want to do it all again.

The Joint Affordable Housing Group, an informal committee that includes the various town affordable housing committees, nonprofit housing organizations and advocates, is trying to scrabble together approximately $30,000 to replicate a housing needs assessment carried out in 2001 and last updated in 2005.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has solidly backed the town of West Tisbury in its ongoing effort to keep Rogers Path, an ancient way that leads to a Civil War-era cemetery in the North Tisbury section of town, open for public use.

The Permanent Endowment of Martha’s Vineyard has supported Island students and nonprofits for 28 years. And on Tuesday this week, the board of the Permanent Endowment paused to celebrate its students at a breakfast with current and past recipients of endowment fund scholarships at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

It was a perfect day to be on the water last Wednesday in Menemsha; there was little wind and the sun was shining as the commercial and recreational harbor began to get under way for the summer season. But what if one of those boats had an accident and oil began to cascade into the inner harbor, or worse, if a large tanker had an incident out in Buzzards Bay?

With both scenarios real possibilities, Islanders prepared an emergency response plan in the event of an oil spill.

The Tri-Town Ambulance Service agreement will get a complete overhaul for the first time in 33 years, up-Island selectmen and ambulance committee members decided this week.

The rural ambulance service serves Aquinnah, West Tisbury and Chilmark. The original agreement for the service was written in 1978. In 1991 a large governance committee was established for the service, which some feel is too unwieldy.

The summer season at Trinity Episcopal Church in Oak Bluffs begins this Sunday, June 19, at 9 a.m. with the Rev. Deborah Warner, rector of the Church of the Messiah in Woods Hole.

Trinity was the first Episcopal worship house on the Vineyard, built in 1882 in what was then Cottage City.

The Tisbury School will celebrate the memory of teacher Michael Ovios today, Friday, June 17 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Mr. Ovios, 65, died unexpectedly at Massachusetts General Hospital on March 31. He taught at the Tisbury School for over 35 years and passed on his love of the arts, sculpture, theatre and industrial arts, including woodshop and ceramics, to generations of students.

Edgartown selectmen tackled a series of issues related to public access to the waterfront this week.

First, the board chided contractor John Nugent for leaving equipment blocking access to a public landing on the harbor at the end of Cottage Street.

Mr. Nugent has been working for some time on a large renovation project on a North Water street home owned by Brian O’Brien.

Island officials may be going in circles long before the state decides to construct its roundabout at the four-way blinker intersection in Oak Bluffs. On Wednesday West Tisbury selectmen voted to refer the proposed project to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for review as a development of regional impact (DRI).