In the Edgartown Triangle there is a store with boxes of compact discs labeled “$1” out front, crates of used CDs inside, and a sizeable collection of new and used vinyl. Aboveground Records is adapting to the 21st century.

The heart of the business is Vineyard-born Mike Barnes. At 36, he has owned Aboveground for 16 years. The store began before the mp3 existed and has seen what that technology has done to the music industry.

After a quiet month on the harbor, amplified outdoor music is back in Oak Bluffs. Selectmen voted to drop the town’s recent, controversial music ban, at least for two weeks, before an overflow crowd of musicians at Tuesday’s board meeting. Music will be allowed at the harborfront bars in Oak Bluffs until 9 p.m. during the next two weeks while the town continues to evaluate its policy on noise.

An Aquinnah man pleaded not guilty in Edgartown district court Wednesday morning following a stabbing in Vineyard Haven late Tuesday.

The stabbing victim was airlifted to Boston Tuesday night. As of yesterday afternoon, the victim had survived heart surgery but his condition remained critical, according to Tisbury police, who have been in regular contact with staff at Beth Israel Hospital where the victim is being treated.

Late yesterday police issued a public call for any witnesses to the incident to telephone the station at 508-696-4240.

On Tuesday the town of Oak Bluffs will ask exhausted voters once more to come out to exercise their civic duty at a special town meeting. This time voters will be asked to transfer over $216,000 to cover the current fiscal year budget shortfalls including $106,000 from the town’s so-called “rainy day” fund to cover unforeseen health insurance costs.

A decade after a seminal study showing the magnitude of the Vineyard’s housing crisis — in facts and figures, resident surveys and census data — a collection of Island affordable housing groups want to do it all again.

The Joint Affordable Housing Group, an informal committee that includes the various town affordable housing committees, nonprofit housing organizations and advocates, is trying to scrabble together approximately $30,000 to replicate a housing needs assessment carried out in 2001 and last updated in 2005.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has solidly backed the town of West Tisbury in its ongoing effort to keep Rogers Path, an ancient way that leads to a Civil War-era cemetery in the North Tisbury section of town, open for public use.

The Permanent Endowment of Martha’s Vineyard has supported Island students and nonprofits for 28 years. And on Tuesday this week, the board of the Permanent Endowment paused to celebrate its students at a breakfast with current and past recipients of endowment fund scholarships at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

It was a perfect day to be on the water last Wednesday in Menemsha; there was little wind and the sun was shining as the commercial and recreational harbor began to get under way for the summer season. But what if one of those boats had an accident and oil began to cascade into the inner harbor, or worse, if a large tanker had an incident out in Buzzards Bay?

With both scenarios real possibilities, Islanders prepared an emergency response plan in the event of an oil spill.

The Tri-Town Ambulance Service agreement will get a complete overhaul for the first time in 33 years, up-Island selectmen and ambulance committee members decided this week.

The rural ambulance service serves Aquinnah, West Tisbury and Chilmark. The original agreement for the service was written in 1978. In 1991 a large governance committee was established for the service, which some feel is too unwieldy.

The summer season at Trinity Episcopal Church in Oak Bluffs begins this Sunday, June 19, at 9 a.m. with the Rev. Deborah Warner, rector of the Church of the Messiah in Woods Hole.

Trinity was the first Episcopal worship house on the Vineyard, built in 1882 in what was then Cottage City.