The controversial 130-turbine, 50-square-mile project slated for construction on Horseshoe Shoal hit a major roadblock late last week when a federal appeals court rejected a key finding from the Federal Aviation Administration that the wind farm would pose no hazard to pilots.

Senior circuit Judge Stephen F. Williams reached an opposite conclusion.

The federal government will continue to foot the bill for its mandatory at-sea monitoring program for another year, after meeting with fishermen and state representatives in recent weeks and reviewing the economic impact of the costs associated with the year-old catch shares fisheries management program.

Bring your friends. That’s the message from Edgartown selectmen to voters on Tuesday night as they try again to hold a special town meeting at 7 p.m. in the Old Whaling Church. Originally set for last Tuesday, the meeting fell 20 voters shy of a quorum and was rescheduled to tonight. The 15-article warrant includes a request for money to commission an appraisal of the Capt. Warren House, and a request to convert the old silos at Katama Farm into cell towers. The quorum requirement in Edgartown is 159 voters. (So bring your friends.)

Ferry service to the Vineyard resumed early Sunday afternoon while Nantucket service was still suspended in the aftermath of the northeaster that lashed the Cape and Islands.

The Island was spared the worst of the storm that dumped a pre-Halloween blanket of wet snow on central and western Massachusetts, prompting Gov. Deval Patrick to declare a state of emergency early Saturday evening for some 15 towns in central and western Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Emergency Management reported only minor storm impacts on the Cape and Islands.

Something wasn’t right: a man known to have violated his probation was boarding the ferry in Vineyard Haven and heading for Woods Hole, instead of being in custody.

Oak Bluffs police officer Jeff Trudel spotted Jason R. Willoughby, 26, of Edgartown, because they were on the same 8:15 a.m. ferry last Friday, Oct. 21. Officer Trudel and the black Labrador Buster — the two form Oak Bluffs’s new K-9 drug unit — were headed to the mainland for a training session, a police spokesman said.

An Aquinnah man was arraigned Friday in Dukes County superior court on charges of second-degree murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon stemming from a fatal stabbing in Vineyard Haven last summer.

Ovando S. Eghill surrendered to authorities after a warrant for his arrest was issued in wake of Thursday’s grand jury indictments, which move the case up from district court to superior court.

A week before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission is set to possibly take a second vote on the controversial roundabout project in Oak Bluffs, MVC executive director Mark London sent an unusual e-mail to commissioners warning them not to talk about the issue with members of the public or read commentary in local newspapers.

A home off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road was completely destroyed by fire early Friday morning. No one was injured, Tisbury fire chief John Schilling said.

Once upon a time, a princess stood on the stoop of Martha and Gerry Yukevich’s William street house in Vineyard Haven. It was Halloween, and the princess was the first visitor of the night.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank added a small but significant piece of land to its holdings at the scenic Gay Head Cliffs this week with the purchase of a single acre near the historic clay cliffs in the westernmost reaches of the Vineyard. The seller was the Vineyard Open Land Foundation. The purchase price was $225,000.