Early Bluefish

The first bluefish of the season was caught by an Oak Bluffs angler at Wasque on Tuesday.

George Moran, 66, was fishing for striped bass with another Oak Bluffs angler, Vincent Frye, in the afternoon, overcast with a hollering wind.

Mr. Moran said they were hoping to get striped bass — and he did get one.

But shortly after 2 p.m., Mr. Moran said: “I made a cast, and suddenly I got a hit. It didn’t feel like a bass.”

Already put away your royal wedding hat? Well, no matter, because tomorrow when the greatest two minutes in sports occurs at that annual sporting event which is simultaneously a fashion event — that is, the Kentucky Derby — Vineyard style is officially part of it: Vineyard Vines has been exclusively named as the “official style of the Kentucky Derby.”

Brothers Shep and Ian Murray, chief executives and cofounders of Vineyard Vines, have a multiyear licensing partnership with Churchill Downs Racetrack, where the Derby is run.

Aquinnah voters will choose between two veteran leaders next week for selectman, both women, one with an extensive record of public service in town, especially in planning, and the other with a long history of service with the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).

Incumbent selectman and board chairman Camille Rose is seeking a third term; former tribal council chairman Beverly Wright is challenging her.

The annual town election is Wednesday; polls will be open from noon until 7 p.m. at the Aquinnah town hall.

A drastic decline in striped bass stocks has state and federal officials scrambling to protect the fish, but many recreational fishermen say the government isn’t moving fast enough.

A bare-bones budget, bylaw changes to allow more affordable housing in town and a proclamation to “condemn” the Cape Wind project await Aquinnah voters at the annual town meeting on Tuesday night.

The meeting begins at 6:45 p.m. at the old Aquinnah town hall with a special town meeting preceding the annual session.

Town moderator Michael Hebert will preside over the sessions.

The completion of the first 100 days has become an important milestone in the career of a politician. For freshman Cong. William Keating, it has seemed more like 1,000 days, with geopolitical, domestic and even nuclear crises coming in quick succession. For the past two weeks Mr. Keating has been catching his breath, meeting with constituents from Edgartown to Quincy, but on Sunday he was reminded that the world doesn’t wait.

Just two weeks after it finished accepting proposals from wind power developments in waters south of the Vineyard, the federal government has more than halved the area in which it will allow wind farms.

Citing concerns from fishermen, the state and others about potential adverse impacts, particularly on fishing and migrating marine mammals, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement has reduced the size of the prospective area from 3,000 square miles to 1,300.

Plans for a new grocery store on State Road in Vineyard Haven put forward by Island entrepreneur Elio Silva have been fast-tracked at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, which was expected to vote on the project last night.

Tisbury town leaders and those involved in building the town’s new $7.4 million emergency services building are in the process of vetting a new construction supervisor, after the former one was sacked over the trouble-plagued project.

The former construction supervisor was terminated at the town’s request, in response to a long list of faults in the building, which have delayed the project. An interim supervisor is in place, but has yet to be approved to take over permanently.

It took a gentle push and a firm pull of many hands to get the 1,590-pound bronze bell back into position. But last Friday, after months of work and preparation, the Old Whaling Church bell was again in its place high above downtown Edgartown.