As part of the town’s application for a Green Community designation, Tisbury selectmen signed off Tuesday on a policy to purchase only fuel-efficient vehicles in the future. Emergency vehicles are exempt from the policy.

Selectmen also approved a post-closure use permit application for the town landfill. The application will go to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and, if approved, will allow the town to install photovoltaic panels at the landfill site.

p> The first phase of research is complete for the Edgartown tidal energy project in Muskeget Channel, project developer Steve Barrett told the selectmen at their weekly meeting Monday.

Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School senior Madison Hughes thought she knew what to expect as she walked to the hallway in front of the athletic director’s office on Monday morning. Her parents, Alleyne and Phil. Her grandparents, Jan and Larry. High school principal Steve Nixon and athletic director Mark McCarthy. Three copies of a letter of intent to play Division 1 lacrosse for Central Connecticut State University, each one waiting for her signature.

As the Vineyard football team prepares to take on the Nantucket Whalers this Saturday in the final game of the season and the 33rd Island Cup, there is one underlying premise for fans, players and coaches alike to keep in mind.

More Islanders are expected to seek fuel assistance this winter than last year, but a spokesman for the South Shore agency that administers the government funds said this week that there is much less money to go around.

Lisa Spencer, energy director for the South Shore Community Action Council in Plymouth, said that federal funding for fuel assistance for low-income people is down 57 per cent from last year.

Islanders may not be aware that they are on a regimen of antidepressants, antibiotics and hormone therapy, but tests of Island wastewater have revealed that drugs and personal care products are present in the environment, if only at levels measured in the parts per trillion. While it is unclear what effect, if any, the presence of these highly-diluted chemicals has on the environment, Oak Bluffs could become the first wastewater treatment plant on the Cape and the Islands to remove them from their water supply.

A Vineyard Haven resident who has long campaigned to save the view at the Tashmoo overlook took her case to the Dukes County commission this week after finding little support from the Tisbury selectmen for a plan to buy the view easement.

Patricia Carlet asked the county commission for a letter of support to buy the easement, possibly by eminent domain, but the commission said it could not do that without the town’s involvement.

At least two towns have decided to sue the Martha’s Vineyard Commission in superior court over its recent decision to approve the Oak Bluffs roundabout.

On Monday Edgartown selectmen voted to appeal the commission’s controversial decision, and on Wednesday West Tisbury joined the cause, citing “a staggering amount of opposition” to the project.

Edgartown selectman and board chairman Arthur Smadbeck was the first to urge his colleagues to consider going to court to block the roundabout.

Days before the two Islands squared off for the Island Cup, Nantucket Steamship Authority governor H. Flint Ranney offered an olive branch to his western neighbor.

On Tuesday morning in Woods Hole, Mr. Ranney presented an antique steam whistle to Vineyard governor Marc Hanover for installation on the M/V Martha’s Vineyard.

The off-season is getting a bit cozier as the Kelley House has decided to stay open through the fall and winter, and at unseasonably low prices. Rooms rates at the inn, which debuted in 1742, start at $89 a night.

No need to leave the pets at the kennel, either. Four-legged family members are welcome for a nominal additional fee.