A 30-year-old Vineyard Haven man has been cited for leaving the scene of property/damage after crashing his car through a guardrail on Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road last week and abandoning it in a ravine.

Interested in a way to celebrate spring while helping conserve the Vineyard’s native plants? Consider volunteering on Saturday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to noon at The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC’s) Native Plant Nursery.

Youth hockey season wrapped up last weekend with the Vineyard picking up a championship tournament trophy.

Chilmark selectmen sharply criticized the human resources board Tuesday night for using inappropriate language to discuss town employees and alleging improper conduct by town officials at public meetings last month.

The selectmen’s criticism stemmed from Feb. 7 and Feb.

Oak Bluffs’ new police officer, Seth Harlow, got a glowing review this week from police chief Erik Blake, described as having “an amazing ability to assimilate in any group, a maturity level that’s unmatched.”

Chief Blake said Mr. Harlow has been working on Martha’s Vineyard since 2009, beginning with Edgartown parking and traffic. He joined the Oak Bluffs force in the summer of 2011 and was asked to stay on. Chief Blake sponsored him last fall for the police academy, where he graduated in the top of his class.

The flag stood at half-mast outside of the Ag Hall in West Tisbury, a shining green John Deere tractor parked beneath it in honor of longtime Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society president Elisha Smith, who died Friday. He was 90 years old.

A graveside service and Masonic service were held earlier in the day for Mr. Smith at the family plot at Smith Cemetery off Barnes Road in Oak Bluffs. Mr. Smith was not only the seventh generation of Smiths to be born on the Island, he was the seventh Elisha.

Despite a slow start, Tisbury’s planned solar project is now getting back on track, Maggie Downey, director of the Cape Light Compact and the Cape and Vineyard Energy Compact, told the selectmen on Tuesday.

Construction equipment will be arriving on Chappaquiddick Friday for the first phase of a complex house move on Wasque Point, where erosion threatens Richard and Jennifer Schifter’s house.

The Edgartown selectmen Monday approved use of part of Chappaquiddick Point parking lot from March 27 through April 3 to unload equipment for moving the house, garage and guest house, as well as a neighboring house that the family purchased to make room for their house move.

Anthony Lewis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning legal journalist and longtime seasonal resident of West Tisbury, died Monday, March 25. He was 85.

As starter plants begin to sprout in greenhouses across the Island, the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society ushered in the spring season on Saturday evening at its annual potluck.