Oak Bluffs town administrator Michael Dutton resigned on Friday morning, capping weeks of tension and speculation over whether he would remain on the job.

The five Oak Bluffs selectmen met behind closed doors for an hour on Friday and then announced in public that they had accepted Mr. Dutton’s resignation, which is effective July 31.

The composition of this letter is a col lection of thoughts and feelings that I have already shared, and some that I have not to this point. Please know that this letter is from my heart. First, I am moved by the kind words and supportive actions on the part of so many staff and community. I have had some time to digest the events of the past two and a half weeks and wanted to write, as I am aware that you have not yet heard from me regarding my reasons for my decision to become the principal of the Oak Bluffs School.

To be homeschooled doesn’t mean one only receives teaching in the home. The family joke surrounding Kendra Mills’ education is that she was “schooled by the whole Island.”

There are very few musicians in David Crohan’s league. He says so himself.

But he says it modestly as if, after more than 60 years of playing, he is still surprised by the fact.

“I was given an extraordinary gift. I can hear a popular song, and I can learn it in five or six minutes, and immediately put together an arrangement of it,” said Mr. Crohan.

L ast Sunday, the strains of organ music floated in the warm summer air down South Summer street in Edgartown.

The stately 1830 pipe organ is back in the Federated Church, and for church organist Peter M. Boak it was a welcome return. “It was like having an old friend back at home,” Mr. Boak said after church services were over.

Little League at Bat

The Martha’s Vineyard Little League under-nine travel team opens their season today, July 8, against Taunton West in the Rehobeth Summer Slam Tournament.

The 10-year-olds travel to the Cape on Friday to face Walpole in the Sandwich Summer Blast, after going 1-2 in the 10-year-old state Little League tournament.

The 11-year-olds won against Brookfield at Veira Park on Wednesday, July 6. Today they play Rochester as they advance through the 11-year-old state Little League tournament.

According to Fluke

Fluke fishermen young and old will be out in force this weekend as the 12th annual fluke tournament sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign War Post 9261 gets under way.

Lines go in the water at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. The weigh-in station is the VFW Post headquarters on Towanticut avenue in Oak Bluffs. Last year the fishing contest attracted close to 130 anglers, according to Peter Herrmann, chairman of the event.

Vineyarders and visitors alike gathered at Niantic Park on Saturday to take part in the ninth annual Vineyard Streetball Classic. The double-elimination basketball tournament for preteens and teens featured, as is tradition, three-on-three half-court ball. As part of the classic’s ongoing evolution, new traditions, including a free throw contest, were also added to the day’s activities.

Thomas J. Hegarty drives around the Vineyard in his Dukes County pickup truck as though he could drive right out to the edge of the world. He holds up the peace sign to nearly every car he passes, or at least calls out the window to say hello.

He’s a man about town, but the former carpenter, contractor and Lampost bartender with the trademark Ray-Ban sunglasses and sometimes coarse sense of humor, has another side too. Mr. Hegarty is celebrating his 10th year as the director of the county integrated pest management program.

Yes, celebrating.

Oak Bluffs police officer Steven Conley was promoted to the rank of Sergeant on Tuesday, July 5, with a ceremony at the Oak Bluffs Police Station. Officer Conley has worked for the department for just over five years.

The promotional process included a written examination, physical agility testing, psychometric and psychological exams, and an interview with the town police chief, Erik Blake.