Ryan Sawyer was a tennis champion in high school and excelled in tennis at college. Now as coach, he has high hopes for the Vineyard boys' tennis team.

The Vineyard Gazette will donate $14,145 to Camp Jabberwocky, the Island’s groundbreaking sleepaway camp for people with disabilities, the result of a successful subscription campaign.

Katrina Delgadillo, Marylee Schroeder and Chantal Desgagne have been training together all winter and will compete in the Boston Marathon Monday.

In the third and final night of the annual town meeting, Tisbury voters agreed to buy property for a new town hall and fund improvements to the harbor wall on Beach Road.

Edgartown sped through a lengthy town meeting agenda Tuesday, approving spending and a $36.8 million budget. Voters chose moments for discussion, including tributes to the moderator.

Oak Bluffs voters took a first step toward banning moped rentals, signed off on a laundry list of capital improvement projects, and approved a $30.3 million budget, the largest in the history of the town.

West Tisbury voters spent the four-plus hours at their annual meeting carefully weighing articles, from funding for the town picnic to potential sites for affordable housing.

Voters in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and West Tisbury all defeated requests to fund a share of the Island’s emergency communications center, which coordinates response to 911 calls Islandwide.

He grips the podium like the wooden wheel of a loaded cargo schooner comfortable yet firm as he steers us through another night

Tell time in color, leaf, in incremental shifts in season.