The 88-year-old Chilmark moderator is nearly as storied as the institution of the New England town meeting itself.

After strong defeats in the three down-Island annual town meetings and a victory in West Tisbury last week, proponents of the controversial housing bank are turning their attention up-Island, where two more town meetings and a vote on the bank’s funding mechanism remain.

The Vineyard Haven store has been shuttered since Friday. The Edgartown store is open for business with few customers and sparse shelves. The strike has affected both Island Stop & Shop stores.

Family, friends and hundreds of Edgartown’s finest gathered at the Old Whaling Church on Monday to honor the life of the native son, senior statesman and war hero.

From the grande dame Harbor View Hotel Edgartown to the pastoral Lambert’s Cove Inn in West Tisbury, more than half a dozen hotels changed ownership on Martha’s Vineyard last year.

In a long and often emotional evening, Edgartown voters powered through a 95-article town meeting that saw the defeat of two housing bank measures and the approval of a new hangar at Katama.

The Stop & Shop store in Vineyard Haven is closed following the Thursday job walkoff by workers in New England and on the Vineyard. The Edgartown store is open. Striking workers are picketing.

Longtime incumbent Michael Donaroma will face off against John (Jack) Krowski, a political outsider, in the race for Edgartown selectman this year.

Bingo hall talks between the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and leaders at the Wampanoag tribe are on hold, MVC chairman Doug Sederholm said last week.

A three-phase, $17 million campus redevelopment plan for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services is one step closer to launch after the project got a green light from the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.