Valerie and Daniel Resto of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Evah Nerys Resto, born on May 18 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Evah weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces at birth.

Jaqueline Dias and Menaem Lima of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Joao Pedro Praseres Defreitas, born on May 20 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Joao weighed 6 pounds, 3.8 ounces at birth.

Vanessa Matthews and Daniel Todd Keegan of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Cora Sadie Marie Keegan, born on May 20 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Cora weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces at birth.

As the spring sports regular season draws to a close, three teams have qualified for the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association postseason tournament: boys' and girls' tennis and girls' softball. A number of track athletes have also qualified for competition in the annual division four state meet.

A West Tisbury special town meeting will be rescheduled for the fall after Tuesday’s meeting failed to gather a quorum.

A scant 60 voters turned out for the meeting; 122 are needed to convene a town meeting.

"Unless anyone knows of another 65 people that are on their way I think we are going to call this meeting for lack of quorum," moderator F. Patrick Gregory declared. "Thank you all for coming out . . . and I guess the Bruins game starts at 7:30 p.m."

When a newly hatched mallard duckling crossed Clevelandtown Road Sunday, it was embarking on an odyssey.
The trip would take it down a storm drain and then to a new home among chickens. It would involve police, the highway department and the kindness of strangers. It would give the duckling (gender yet unknown) a name: Stormy.
Stormy, less than a week old, was observed Sunday crossing Clevelandtown Road when he walked across a storm grate and fell through to the bottom.
“He was seen swimming in circles down at the bottom,” Edgartown police Sgt. Craig Edwards said.

Money to help pay for replacing courthouse windows and two bylaws relating to the new medical marijuana law top a special town meeting warrant in West Tisbury tonight.

Voters gather at the West Tisbury School at 7 p.m. There are seven articles on the warrant.

A Vineyard Haven store that caters to the Island Brazilian community is getting a makeover.

Mara Santos, a West Tisbury resident, is the new manager of Island Star, a convenience store located at 25 Beach Road in Vineyard Haven.

“I hope to have everything ready for a grand opening on May 26,” she said. “I want to earn the trust of new customers.”

Mrs. Santos has lived on the Vineyard since 1999. She has worked as a caregiver, raised a daughter and ran a cleaning business.

The beach at Wasque Reservation, closed to swimmers and fishermen for about a year and a half because of dangerous conditions, will likely be open for swimming and fishing this summer, the Vineyard superintendent for The Trustees of Reservations said.

Plans for a large addition to a church off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road in Oak Bluffs have spurred concerns from neighbors for the second time in five years. At a public hearing before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission Thursday, commissioners and members of the public heard a proposal from Alliance Community Church to build an addition to the existing 7,000 square-foot building.