West Tisbury selectmen on Wednesday swiftly voted to remove several No Parking signs recently placed across the road from the Lambert’s Cove beach parking lot after complaints came in from people who had paid $50 for a resident beach sticker and were worried they would have nowhere to park.

Wins Literary Award

Kelly Easton of Chilmark has won the Asian Pacific American Literature Award for her book Hiroshima Dreams. The book, set in Providence, was also the recipient of the ASTAL Rhode Island Middle School Book of the Year, and is a New York Public Library Book for the teen age group.

Appreciation Party

Friends are welcome to gather for an appreciation party for Penny Townes and Darlene Kelly, to honor them for their work at the Second Hand Store in Edgartown, on Tuesday, July 29, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Midnight Mermaid Gallery at 117 Main street in Edgartown. Gallery owner Rebekah Blu invites anyone for lemonade on the porch; vegetarian and sweet hors d’oeuvres are welcome, too. “Wear or bring your favorite thrift shop treasure, and come by to say thank you to Penny and Darlene,” Ms. Blu said.

In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after years in Manhattan to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe loathes Richard Moby, chief of the off-Island landscaping business Broadway. He is irrationally convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and Island-based nursery businesses in general.

Dear P:

The Island Diversity Council, in collaboration with the Island’s public schools, premieres a thought-provoking exhibition on the illusion of race — All of Us Are Related, Each of Us Is Unique — comprising 18 graphic panels and a film entitled Six Billion Races, which emphasizes the unity, as well as the diversity, of humankind.

The exhibition will be open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 26, through Friday, August 1, in the cafeteria of the West Tisbury School on Old County Road.

Three Martha’s Vineyard students were accepted into the prestigious OperaFest 2008 workshops on the Island, and two will be performing arias and scenes from famous operas with up-and-coming young singers from New Jersey on Saturday, July 26, at 8 p.m. at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs.

The Vineyard Students are Rosie Bick, who will sing Cunegonda from Leonard Bernstein’s Candide and Mitch Lowe who will sing in the Torreador Scene from Bizet’s Carmen.

Funny Girls on Film

Making Trouble, an amusing documentary with a half dozen comediennes including Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner and Wendy Wasserstein is screening Sunday, July 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven. Gail Reimer, executive director of the Jewish Women’s Archive, will be a special guest at the screening of this film directed by Rachel Talbot. Suggested admission donation is $10.

Rachel Stein’s dad, Arthur (Adam Heller), after 9/11, had a freak out beyond everyone else’s freak out, but he had a certifiable right to it: One of the infamous planes flew into his office at the Twin Towers. While Arthur somehow muddled into a stairwell and was shepherded out by a fellow with a flashlight, the 65 employees who worked under him were not so lucky. Since then — and the action of the play takes place in 2003 — Arthur has not changed out of his pajamas and he’s starting to, well, stink.

Among many funny things about Steve Roslonek, this may be the funniest: After everything that’s happened in the past 10 years, he still thinks his voice — and even his personality — is best suited to singing backup. Think about that when, in all likelihood, he and his band fill the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs with thousands of parents and children for a free concert on Sunday afternoon and get them clapping, stomping and singing along to tunes such as Elephant Hide and Seek, The Veggie Song and Opposite Day.

Sara Nesson had been thinking of leaving filmmaking. She had even taken up blacksmithing. “I think I just wasn’t inspired by anything,” she said this week.