Aquinnah voters will be asked to decide whether the town should pay its share of $1.5 million in repairs to the West Tisbury School at a special town meeting planned for later this month or early July.

Selectmen decided Tuesday to call the special town meeting.

Pulitzer prize-winning historian William McFeely set the mood for the rapt crowd at the library of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Tuesday. They had gathered to learn about the role that one Vineyard ship played at the close of the Civil War.

The Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network has elected new officers for its 2011-2012 programming and education season.

Jan Pogue, owner of Vineyard Stories, has been elected president. Vice president is Danielle Bailey, owner of Kiddo’s in Oak Bluffs. Margo Urbany-Joyce, financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial in Edgartown, after three years as president, is treasurer. Kristin Buck, formerly of the Visiting Nursing Association, is secretary.

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) will develop a cooperative management plan for the Menemsha Pond with $181,590 in tribal wildlife grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The management plan would not only ensure the proper management of the bay scallop resource in Menemsha Pond, but also create a framework for management of other important resources, such as American oysters, herring species, winter flounder, American eels, and any other resource found in the connected pond system, according to a statement from the federal officials.

It had been 67 years since Fred B. (Ted) Morgan Jr. had been back to La Fière, Normandy, in France, but it was certainly worth the wait. “It was the most amazing trip of my life,” the much-decorated town father of Edgartown said this week upon his return from visiting the place where he played a part in making world history on June 6, 1944.

The last teams standing in postseason play, girls’ and boys’ tennis, split their victories in the state tournament this week.

The Greatest Game Ever Pitched:> Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn and the Pitching Dual of the Century, by Jim Kaplan, Triumph Books, Chicago, IL, 2011, 203 pages $24.95.

Candlestick Park, San Francisco, California, July 2,1963. Two future Hall of Fame pitchers, one at the end of a stunning career, the other at the beginning. Giants versus Braves. Sixteen innings. No relievers.

Editor’s Note: What follows is the text of the speech given by Marc Lefevre, mayor of Sainte-Mè re-É glise honoring Fred B. Morgan Jr. and Duaine Pinkston, medics of the 505 PIR, 82nd AB. Mr. Morgan traveled to Normandy this week for the event; a story about his trip appears on Page Five in today’s edition.

What follows are an edited selection of reader comments reacting to the June 3 Gazette story about new rules for dogs on Lambert’s Cove Beach.

What a miserable enforcement nightmare this will be. Joan’s life is busy enough already, without adding this sort of automatic-torture “legislation.”

Tom Hodgson

West Tisbury

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My parents’ best friend, the artist William Blakesley, has a birthday tradition of hosting his friends for a restaurant dinner. This year he has been planning the seating for some months and asked my father six months beforehand to make the toast, although forbidding him from starting with the words, Dearly Beloved.