Making short work out of one of the longest town meeting seasons in recent memory, West Tisbury voters approved a revised $6.8 million school budget at a brief special town meeting Tuesday night.

The last time a lighthouse was moved on the Vineyard it was the Cape Pogue Light.

The West Tisbury annual town meeting has been rescheduled to April 28 after voter turnout fell short of a quorum Wednesday. In neighboring Tisbury, the second night of annual town meeting was under way.

Edgartown and Oak Bluffs wrapped up their annual town meetings in a single night Tuesday, sometimes agreeable about spending and sometimes not. Voters in Tisbury and West Tisbury returned for a second night Wednesday.

One agreement is signed and a second set to be finished that will allow two historic Vineyard movie theatres to reopen for the summer season, organizers say.

The poet and novelist whose grace, elegance and remarkable longevity spanned more than a century, died at her home overlooking Stonewall Pond.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank broke its own record for fees last week, collecting more than $1 million in a single five-day period. Several large property sales contributed to the windfall, including a $22 million sale down harbor in Edgartown.

The Island-owned energy cooperative, along with a partner, was awarded a provisional lease to develop an offshore wind farm in federal waters off the Vineyard.

Flatbread, the popular wood-fired pizza franchise near the Martha’s Vineyard Airport that has hosted fundraisers, family dance parties and concerts, will not reopen this summer, owner Jay Gould has confirmed.

“The season is too short for us. We do very well in July and August, but it’s not enough,” Mr. Gould told the Gazette in an email early Tuesday.

It snowed as if it would never stop snowing. A resort economy sputtered back to life. History came alive and sailed down the Sound into Vineyard Haven harbor. These were a few benchmarks of the year.