The Martha’s Vineyard Museum was alive with activity Saturday afternoon as it hosted its first Earth Day Conservation Festival, a four-hour celebration of the Island’s natural environment.

Incumbent Abbe Burt is being challenged for the second time this year by Christina Colarusso, with first-time candidate MacAleer Schilcher making it a three-way race.

The former Educomp building is back on the list of possibilities for a new Tisbury town hall.

Tisbury’s town meetings begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center in Oak Bluffs.

Now living in Seattle, Silas Berlin is the 25-year-old son of versatile Island pianist Jeremy Berlin, one of many in the audience who smiled as they listened to the young performer whose musical development they have been following for years.

Superintendent Richard (Richie) Smith spoke sternly to school committee members this week, wishing he was given a head’s up about the motion at West Tisbury town meeting that led to voters rejecting the high school budget.

The legal tug of war over the regional high school’s plan to use artificial turf on its athletic fields took center stage unexpectedly this week as town meeting season got under way.

It’s not every day uniformed members of the U.S. Coast Guard play volleyball with first-graders or shred string cheese with kindergartners at snack break. At the Tisbury School, however, things like this are happening every Thursday.

After a vigorous debate Thursday night, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted 10 to 6 in favor of resuming in-person meetings in May.