After months of discussion, the Edgartown library building committee has selected its current North Water street location as the site for expansion.

The committee had been considering either the current Carnegie building or the old Edgartown School as two possible sites for the new library. The preliminary structural report for both buildings came back favorably, but a new building code that came into effect at the end of September found the old school unsuitable for use as a library.

With a potentially generous state grant on the line, the West Tisbury Library trustees are gearing up for a grant application this winter to help underwrite an ambitious plan that would see doors to a dramatically expanded library open early in 2014.

The perceived decline in striped bass stocks was underscored by a report out of Maryland last month that shows fewer young fish than last year in Chesapeake Bay, the place where stripers spawn.

The annual young-of-the-year index for striped bass released by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources is 5.6, well below the average of 11.6. Last year, the index was 7.87; in 2008 it fell to 3.20. In 2007 the index was 13.39.

The young-of-the-year index is considered a barometer on the health of striped bass, which spawn in the spring each year.

After the most intense contest in memory at a county election, Dukes County sheriff Mike McCormack was back in his office yesterday, but offering the prospect of some changes in response to the criticisms of his two challengers.

As it turned out, Mr. McCormack won re-election reasonably comfortably in Tuesday’s election, receiving 4,509 votes across the six Island towns, compared with 3,251 for his main challenger, former state police Sgt. Neal Maciel. The third candidate, former Oak Bluffs Det. Warren Gosson, garnered 405 votes.

The Edgartown selectmen are threatening to withdraw from the Martha’s Vineyard Commission amid ongoing complaints about whether the town is paying more than its fair share of the commission’s annual budget.

After several years and tens of thousands of dollars in legal costs, Tisbury has finally resolved its problem with the three poultry-killing huskies belonging to the Garde family. The dogs have been exported to Edgartown.

But the story did not end without more brinkmanship and controversy: a last-minute aversion of a court proceeding, concerns among the dogs’ new neighbors and some claims that Tisbury had dumped its problem elsewhere.

Help Homeless Animals

Kym Cyr, who runs the Helping Homeless Animals shelter in Oak Bluffs, has a critical need for people to adopt cats. The summer season has left the shelter full of cats and dogs in desperate need of a home. Call Kym at 508-221-6931 for more information and directions to the shelter on June avenue.

Volunteers are also needed.

Three years after the Island Affordable Housing Fund saved the historic Denniston House in Oak Bluffs from demolition, it is applying for a permit from the Oak Bluffs historic commission to raze the building.

Dean’s List

William Ledden of Oak Bluffs has been named to the dean’s list for the fall quarter at the New England Institute of Technology.

Tisbury police believe they are getting closer to identifying the town’s peeping Tom, who remains active despite publicity about the case and the arrival of colder weather.

Det. Mark Santon said police now believed the man had been active since the summer, peering in windows over a large area of town. The most recent report of his activities came in on Wednesday.