David McCullough laughingly calls the pretty little eight-by-10-foot structure in his back yard his “world headquarters.” Naturally, he was keen to pass on the details of its architecture and history.

“This is where I’ve worked since 1972,” he said. “It was built by Alan Miller, an artist with carpentry. He built the Black Dog in Vineyard Haven. He built numerous buildings around the Island, all distinctive.”

Knowledge of the Atlantic great white shark has been relegated for too long to the fevered imaginations of nervous beachgoers and boaters. With the animals returning to the New England coastline in larger numbers, one state scientist with Vineyard roots is bringing that understanding out of the realm of the mythical and uncovering fascinating insights into this elusive two-ton, apex predator’s behavior.

All of Norton Point Beach, on the Edgartown side, has been reopened for oversand vehicle access, The Trustees of Reservations announced Saturday. The piping plover chicks which had been using the eastern end of the beach for feeding have successfully fledged, so under state shorebird guidelines vehicle access is allowed again to this beach.

The Edgartown side of Norton Point Beach stretches for two miles from Left Fork to the Breach in Norton Point.

Swimming in the breach on either the Chappaquiddick or Edgartown side remains strictly prohibited.

The Steamship Authority will meet on the Island on Tuesday, July 19, at 9:30 a.m. to discuss, among other items, the proposed closure of the Martha’s Vineyard reservations office.

The meeting is at Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven. It is open to the public.

M. Emmett Carroll Jr. has seen change on the waterfront, from the days when lobsters were bountiful to now when they seem scarce. He has kept his faith by dancing with new ideas, shifting his attention to raising oysters. He runs Menemsha Oysters, pretty much a one-man aquaculture operation which involves raising and harvesting some of the Island’s tastiest oysters.

For the second time in a row, Martha’s Vineyard Community Services has received three-year accreditation for its Island Counseling Center, Disability Services and the CONNECT-to-end Violence programs from CARF International.

CARF accreditation represents a high standard of performance for health and human services providers. To receive accreditation an organization must undergo a three-day, on-site visit by a team of surveyors and meet exacting standards.

Despite all the organizations on the Island dedicated to helping those in need, some needs go unmet. The backers of a new Web site hope to change that.

NetworkofNeighbors.com, which goes live in August, is the brainchild of Squire Rushnell and Louise DuArt of Edgartown.

The Rev. Mark Bozutti-Jones will be celebrant at Trinity Episcopal Church for the next two Sundays, July 17 and 24.

The priest for pastoral care and nurture at Trinity, Wall Street in New York, where he has served since 2007, Rev. Bozzuti-Jones is a native of Jamaica, and has served as a pastoral assistant in Manaus, Amazonas and Dangriga, Belize.

Cathlin Baker, the first woman minister in the history of the First Congregational Church of West Tisbury, calls her church, which dates to the 1600s, “the little church in the heart of the Island.”