The following cases were heard in Edgartown district court.

MV Beach Holdings LLC purchased a Black Point Beach lot in Chilmark from Isabelle Lew Trs. and Oyster Nominee Trust for $435,000 on Nov. 20.

Janaina Kelly Machado and Maicon Patricio, of Oak Bluffs, announce the birth of a son, Matteo Machado Patricio, born on Nov. 27 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

amantha R. Gitschier and Khalid L. Dore were married on Nov. 4 at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.

Construction projects in Chilmark will now face higher permitting costs, after the select board approved a new building department fee schedule proposed by building inspector Adam Petkus.

The Oak Bluffs select board voted Tuesday to eliminate long-term overnight mooring and slip use in the marina during the off-season.

West Tisbury’s affordable housing committee is redoubling its efforts to fund private affordable housing projects in town after a pilot program was voted down at special town meeting.

The Oak Bluffs select board voted last week to adopt a 15 per cent residential tax exemption for fiscal year 2024, lowering property taxes on homes that are a person’s primary residence.

The handling of the Sankaty incident this summer has fractured the Steamship Authority’s generally unanimous board of governors, who took opposing positions at their regular meeting Tuesday morning in Falmouth.

West Tisbury residents got a chance to weigh in on a proposed bylaw to regulate short term rentals in town at a joint meeting of the planning board and short-term rental committee Monday, Nov. 27.