Grace Gordon, a student leader and varsity athlete at Williams College class of 2012, has been selected to launch the Martha’s Vineyard branch of Ivy Insiders, an innovative SAT prep program that was started by undergraduates at Harvard in 2003 and has since grown into a national test prep leader thanks to the highest student score improvements in the industry.

Revisions to the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law will provide the public with easier access to a wider range of documents and meeting information, but the changes are creating logistical problems for Island officials as they try to be ready before the new law goes into effect on July 1.

Among other things, under the changed law, towns will be required to post notices for all meetings in a public place that is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Currently public meeting notices are posted on a bulletin board in most town halls.

In 1896 William Mayhew escorted a Boston Globe reporter to Noman’s Land to meet the Butlers, the Island’s lone, rather eccentric inhabitants. Mr. Butler, after explaining that their daughter was possessed by the spirit of a Boston milliner and would often race around the house in a fit of hat trimming, conveyed the desolation of the place, perhaps as idiomatically as possible: “We don’t git any news here at this time of year ’ceptin what comes on the wind, and it’s about two months now since we’ve heard from the American Continent.

The new Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is open for business. The freshly painted halls are bustling with medical staff, and state-of-the-art stretchers sit empty in the emergency room hallway.

And this week most of the rooms are occupied.

The long-overdue replacement and expansion of a hangar at Katama Airfield in Edgartown has been rejected by the state Division of Conservation Services, leaving town officials searching for another avenue to complete the project.

In what would be a first for Massachusetts, the town of West Tisbury is considering a way for homeowners to bequeath property to the affordable housing pool in exchange for a tax abatement based on its reduced value while they live.

At a joint meeting of the selectmen and affordable housing committee Tuesday, the two boards agreed to send the concept to town counsel for a legal review.

The Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is suing an exclusive south shore beach association, accusing it of trespass and intimidation.

After several years of declining real estate values and falling sales numbers, at last there are hopeful signs for the Island housing market. Revenue numbers for the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank are substantially up.

Land bank executive director James Lengyel said this week he expected a 30 per cent increase in takings for the fiscal year, ending this month. The volume of sales, however, remains relatively flat.

A Vineyard Haven man being sought for deportation by the federal authorities stands accused of sexually assaulting a nine-year old child. Jose Matos, 49, was arraigned in Edgartown district court last Friday on charges of rape of a child by force, indecent assault and battery of a child under 14 and assault and battery.

Edgartown’s failure to act on a request to operate a van tour through town has resulted in the loss of a full season of profit for one Vineyard business owner, and he said the town should be held accountable.