Oak Bluffs police last Friday broke up a party on Grovedale Road attended by more than a dozen underage guests and charged the host with illegally providing alcohol to minors.

Matthew P. Lyons, 24, was charged with selling or delivering liquor to a person under the age of 21. He was arraigned in Edgartown District Court on Monday and released on $100 bail.

As the two-week shotgun season for deer came to a close, officials reported that it has been a quiet year, with the number of deer taken down by almost half from last year.

A total of 118 deer were checked in at the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest through the first week, compared to 208 last year. At the Wampanoag tribe station in Aquinnah, 104 deer were checked in through the first week, compared to 181 through the same period last year.

It wasn’t exactly a summit conference, but selectmen from Chilmark and Aquinnah held a joint session on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of dredging Menemsha Pond. The two boards last met in Aquinnah roughly a year ago to discuss cell phone towers.

This time they met in Chilmark and the topic at hand was mutual concerns about the health of the pond that spans both towns.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank has joined forces with the Island Affordable Housing Trust to buy 22.5 acres off State Road in West Tisbury for the combined purpose of conservation and affordable housing.

The property, which is near the intersection of Old County Road on the south side of State Road, was formerly owned by the late Eleanor Bennett. The seller is Molly Belle Bennett, Mrs. Bennett’s daughter and the executor of her estate.

They are symptoms most of us have experienced. Fatigue? We chalk it up to skimping on sleep. We forget where we put our car keys and call it a sign of age. Anxiety — one too many things on the to-do list. Hardly ever do we stop and think these symptoms all have one cause. Rarely do we think they are signs of sickness.

Old South Road’s east fork won’t be regraded this winter because Aquinnah has learned that the town doesn’t own its oldest street.

Brush clearing prior to regrading the unpaved ancient way was halted after selectmen learned that the town never has formally accepted the road, selectman and board chairman Camille Rose told several somewhat perplexed residents at the board’s Nov. 26 meeting.

Residents had come to the meeting to ask why the work had ceased, leaving clumps of cut brush on the rutted and potholed road.

The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital announced this week that it has received the Summit Award from Press Ganey Associates Inc. for excellence in patient satisfaction in its emergency department. The award was announced in ceremonies at the Press Ganey National Client Conference, held Nov. 27 in Kissimmee, Fla.

The West Tisbury town hall renovation committee is considering asking town meeting voters in April to approve estimated costs rather than firm bid costs for the project.

Committee member Bea Phear told selectmen last week that the architects working on the proposal had advised the committee that the timeline was too tight to produce firm bids and finished drawings for town meeting. Keenan and Kelly Architects Ltd. of Falmouth are the renovation architects.

West Tisbury neighbors who have been sparring for six months over the noise levels of crowing roosters have agreed to mediate their dispute.

The town zoning board of appeals has granted the Lambert’s Cove neighbors an extension until Jan. 30 to reach an accord.

Kathy and Tom Harris, who lodged the noise complaint last summer, were joined in the mediation effort by Kurt Freund, whose neighboring Mill Stone Lane property has housed the roosters. Dyan Redik, Mr. Freund’s fiancee, owns the roosters.

Winners for the annual Heritage Trail project were announced at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School this week. The project involves sophomore history students who go out and trek the African American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard, and then do a research project which is judged. Projects fall into categories: writing, art, physical projects and electronic projects.

The winners this year are as follows: