Plymouth Rock Studios, a $500-million film and television studio complex scheduled to open in 2010 in Plymouth, has selected Hurd Publishing of Oak Bluffs to produce the company’s quarterly publication, Plymouth Rock Studios Magazine. The publication will report on studio plans and events and on Massachusetts as an up-and-coming film venue. The first issue is due out in June. It will be distributed to members of Hollywood’s Producers Guild of America and to major East Coast hotels.

In celebration of national poetry month, there will be a reading of 17th century metaphysical poet John Donne at the Old Whaling Church at 4 p.m. on April 19. The program will also include the music of William Byrd and other composers from the English Renaissance. Donne’s work will be read by John Ortman and Elizabeth Villard, who will be joined by Matt Pelikan on recorder and violin, and Jan Hyer on cello.

Tisbury's meeting will run for at least one more night, after voters got through less than a third of the warrant.

The major debate of the first evening concerned a plan to spend $4 million on road works in town — $2.5 million of it on a new road to connect the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road with State Road.

Voters opted to split the article in two, and overwhelmingly approved spending $1.5 million for the rebuilding or resurfacing of various streets and sidewalks in town. But they bridled at building the connector road, in view of the difficult economic climate.

In response to the loss of summer programming at the Island YMCA and the growing need for valuable summer learning experiences and full-day programs that foster healthy choices, friendship and cognitive exploration for children, the Farm Institute is considering options to extend their summer programs to meet the scheduling needs of Island working parents for children ages five to fourteen.

Samantha Rabin, daughter of Karen and Steven Rabin of Edgartown, has been selected for the Levitt Research Fellows Program at Hamilton College. The program is open to all students who wish to spend the summer working in collaboration with a faculty member on an issue related to public affairs.

Fellows spend 10 weeks intensively researching their issue and provide a written assessment of their work at the completion of the summer. In addition, Levitt Fellows give a public presentation of their research findings to the Hamilton community in the fall semester.

Women Empowered is proud to announce the first Empowered Woman of the Year Award. Nominations are now being accepted for the woman whose attributes and activities improve the lot of others on the Vineyard, either by her deeds or character.

The Trustees of Reservations have a new superintendent for the management of the Chappaquiddick properties of Cape Pogue, Wasque, Mytoi and Norton Point Beach. David Babson of Island Pond, Vt., will assume his duties as of April 20. He is no stranger to Chappaquiddick: his family owns a cottage on Pip’n Road and he has spent part of each summer on Chappy since he was young.

What signals the beginning of spring like butterflies breaking forth into the warm breeze?

While school is out, April 20 to 24, giant butterfly puppets will be hatching out of West Tisbury, as Island puppeteers April Thanhauser and Marsha Wynsrig lead a team of youngsters in a week-long puppet building workshop.

O n April 14, the residents of Tisbury will be asked to vote on the sale of beer and wine in our town. The real question that most of us are wrestling with is: how will the sale of beer and wine served with meals at Vineyard Haven restaurants change our town? To answer this honestly and fairly, we must look beyond our town boundaries and try to understand the big picture.

How and why do people come to Tisbury?

In the past several weeks, comments in Island news papers have questioned the necessity of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission or whether Vineyard town zoning laws are now strong enough to protect the Vineyard.

In 1974, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission legislation was drafted by Vineyard residents and put into law by the state legislature to give an added layer of review and protection for the unique resources of the Vineyard.