The towns of Edgartown and Tisbury this week signed agreements with the Cape and Vineyard Energy Cooperative estimated to save them a collective $9.4 million in electricity costs over the next 20 years.

And the energy will not only be cheap, but clean. The cooperative will build large solar arrays at three different locations in Edgartown, with a combined production capacity of 4.5 megawatts, and one in Tisbury with a capacity of about 1.25 megawatts.

The mounting problems in Oak Bluffs escalated this week as selectmen described a crisis in their accounting department and the news surfaced of fresh complaints about possible violations to state bidding laws on town contracts.

Victoria Dryfoos and Craig Arnold were married on Saturday, May 21 at the home of Dorothea Arnold of Makonikey. The bridegroom’s brother, Derek Arnold, performed the ceremony on the scenic bluff overlooking Vineyard Sound.

In attendance for the bride were Shari Geistfeld, Marie Larsen and Lynn Ditchfield. The groomsmen, sons of Craig and Victoria, were Kylund Arnold, Conner Arnold and Tau Rios-Dryfoos.

Maritime Academy

Cadet 1st Class James Bishop of Edgartown graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy on Saturday, June 18 with a degree in marine safety and environmental protection.

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Cadet 1st Class Michael Gately of West Tisbury graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy on Saturday, June 18 with a degree in marine transportation.

Dr. Yvonne Hines-Bruce of Providence, R.I., and Vineyard Haven and Carl Joseph McCarthy of Worcester, formerly of Jamaica, W.I., were married on Feb. 12 at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester.

The ceremony was performed by the Hon. Mel Greenberg.

Dr. Hines-Bruce is medical director of Hines Dermatology Associates Inc., with offices in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Mr. McCarthy is community development manager for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families central region.

A honeymoon is planned at a later date.

Dean’s List

Kendall Tyler Chaves, of West Tisbury, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Babson College.

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Andrew McHugh of Edgartown has been named to the Tufts University dean’s list for the Spring 2011 semester.

Remember that old Dylan song, “Somethin’ is happenin’, but you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?” In the opening first scene of the two-person play, coming2terms, at the Vineyard Playhouse, we’re all Mr. Joneses as we try to figure out what a particular attractive couple is up to. They’re coming across with everything long-term couples tend to do. Bickering? Check! Avoiding larger issues? Check! Sharing their day? Check!

The Amish Project is a play that faces big questions head on, including how do you forgive the murder of five innocent little girls?

The play is based on the tragic events of Oct. 2, 2006 when a gunman entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and shot 10 young girls, killing five of them.

Later the Amish people of that community publicly forgave the gunman in a service of reconciliation. Eventually, the West Nickel Mines schoolhouse was torn down and the New Hope School was built at another location.

By PETER BRANNEN

For Jaws production designer Joe Alves, frights were in short supply on set during the early summer of 1974.

“My concern was the audiences might laugh at the shark,” he said in a telephone conversation from his Hollywood home on Tuesday.

Few people embody the statement “still waters run deep” more than Island singer-songwriter Willy Mason, equal parts thoughtful and lighthearted as he considers his musical roots and his career.

He is half done with his next album, which should be released around January. In August and September, he will be playing festivals in the United Kingdom.