When Edgartown voters gather next week for their annual town meeting, preserving town history will be among the items on the agenda.

Candidates are making their final pitches for support in Oak Bluffs as campaigns for town selectman wind down this week.

An ongoing visioning process will be in evidence at the Tisbury town meeting this year.

In preparing for his first appearance as West Tisbury town moderator, Dan Waters has been doing his homework.

At their annual town meeting Edgartown voters will take up an operating budget that includes a salary for a full-time fire chief.

The Wesley Hotel in Oak Bluffs will be sold to Lark Hotels, a boutique chain which operates in New England coastal communities.

West Tisbury voters will face the town’s first override in 10 years at their annual town meeting Tuesday.

One agreement is signed and a second set to be finished that will allow two historic Vineyard movie theatres to reopen for the summer season, organizers say.

The paint will be dry and the historic mural ready for first-time viewing when voters walk through the doors of the Old Whaling Church, warrants in hand, for their annual town meeting Tuesday night.

Last week at State Road Restaurant Geraldine Brooks gave a sneak preview reading of her novel The Secret Chord, to be published in October.