At the first meeting of the year, the high school committee voted to have the high school manage all school buses, talked about new requirements for background checks, and welcomed new principal Gilbert Traverso.

Vineyard voters followed most statewide voting trends in Tuesday’s primary, casting ballots for winning gubernatorial candidates Martha Coakley and Charles Baker. Democratic voters on the Island also came out in strong numbers for gubernatorial candidate Donald Berwick.

The National Weather Service cooperative station in downtown Edgartown saw a changing of the guard this week when meteorologists came to replace the small wooden shelter that houses thermometers. The weather service has collected its field data the same way since 1946.

We must say goodbye to Ethel Sherman, a beloved member of our world who was a sage of her time, accomplishing more than many of us could manage in her 91 years.

My new favorite is the Fortex bean, a French horticultural type, only climbing over six feet tall and producing thin, round fillet-type beans over 10 inches long. I’m picking them in a timely fashion, so they are still tender and delicious.

In Greek mythology, Ganymede was seen by the great god Zeus tending to his flock on the mountains outside of the city of Troy.

Some say you can smell the Carolina salt air when you see King Mackerel & The Blues Running: Songs and Celebrations of the Carolina Coast.

The annual Tivoli Day celebration, which has been going on for over three decades, returns on Saturday, Sept. 13.

If you have a bad case of garden envy, Polly Hill Arboretum has the cure. Its annual end of the season plant sale is on Saturday, Sept. 13.

You know you’ve always wanted to carve and forge. We all have. Featherstone Center for the Arts gives us the option. Its first-ever Iron on the Island event is on Saturday, Sept. 20, pretty much all day.