The Martha’s Vineyard Museum expects to sign within days a purchase and sales agreement to buy the former Marine Hospital in Vineyard Haven for an undisclosed price.

The purchase of the historic property, perched on a hill above the harbor, would mark a major step in the museum’s long quest to find a new home for its historical collections outside of Edgartown.

Museum executive director David Nathans said yesterday morning he hoped to have a deal completed by week’s end.

Remembering Cee Jay Jones, the unofficial summer ambassador in Oak Bluffs, who died Oct. 9 at the age of 100 in Winston Salem, N.C.

Tears mixed with laughter as the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School’s class of 2011 took the stage at their graduation Sunday afternoon with Can’t Go Back Now by The Weepies playing in the background. With parents, friends and teachers cheering them on and sharing in their tears, Domonique Aaron, Jessica Dupon, Sasha Iammarino, Brian Luce, Mattia Phaneuf, Erica Taylor and Hanna Vanderlaske received their diplomas along with scholarships, praise and gifts from their teachers and schoolmates.

The Tri-Town Ambulance service committee will recommend to the Chilmark selectmen on Tuesday that interim chief Paul (Zeke) Wilkins be permanently appointed chief, committee chairman and Aquinnah police chief Randhi Belain confirmed this week.

Mr. Wilkins has served as interim chief since February when Robert Bellinger resigned. The committee had offered the post to a candidate from Connecticut, who withdrew his application.

Going Places

From Gazette editions of June, 1936:

The season of 1936 has been coming in on a bicycle, and many observers have looked up, startled, to see it coming in on a bicycle built for two. An older generation had forgotten all about the tandem bicycle, and a younger generation has never heard of it. There is a pleasant surprise to see the two-seater skimming along the street, its two riders enjoying sensations which the human race was silly ever to have surrendered.

Two Edgartown establishments that served beer and wine illegally over the holiday weekend will receive a reprimand from the town selectmen.

At their weekly meeting Tuesday selectmen reported that the Eisenhauer Gallery on North Water street served alcohol without a one-day permit at their weekend opening, and Edgartown Meat and Fish Market sold beer and wine on Memorial Day, against state law.

Police chief Tony Bettencourt said when police arrived at the market they immediately stopped sales.

Sengie’s Summer Closure

Sengekontacket Pond was closed to shellfishing on Wednesday this week and will remain closed until Oct. 1, Oak Bluffs shellfish constable David Grunden confirmed. The closure affects all shellfish harvesting; the pond is safe for swimming.

By MIKE SECCOMBE

Everything is connected to everything else. Thus the moves in the 1980s to deregulate the trucking industry have wound up, 30 years later, costing the Steamship Authority and its employees millions of dollars.

It’s a convoluted series of events, traced by the SSA in a recent statement explaining why the cost of providing retirement benefits to its employees had just gone up by around $500,000 a year.

Some of the millions of small plastic discs, released accidentally from a New Hampshire sewer plant three months ago, have begun washing up on Vineyard beaches

Over the weekend, people reported finding scores of the discs on south shore beaches. One Island resident picked up more than 60 at Quansoo. Others were found on South Beach, near the Edgartown Great Pond opening and at Wasque.

Corrections

In an obituary on Friday for Arthur R. Railton, the editor and writer for the Dukes County Intelligencer, the Gazette overlooked the editorship of the late George W. Adams, who served for a year between the editorships of E. Gale Huntington and Mr. Railton.

Working with the photographer Alison Shaw and designer Janet Holladay, Mr. Adams — a former reporter for the Vineyard Gazette — modernized the layout of the Intelligencer, establishing the template that the publication still uses today.