In early February, library lovers will be invited to carry the first of nearly 50,000 books and other items to the new Edgartown library building.

Edgartown selectmen named 12 police officers to new three-year appointments, at their meeting Tuesday. Chief David Rossi requested the reappointments.

Oneil Wilson, Claudia Murillo and their son Alex met all the criteria to buy the home at 42 Richmond avenue for a below-market price of $225,000.

The ferry Woods Hole made her first voyage a little earlier than planned this month in Morgan City, La., where the vessel is nearing completion.

Nat Benjamin opened the Sail MV winter lecture series, talking about his 2014 voyage to Haiti aboard his schooner Charlotte to deliver supplies and donations to an orphanage on Ile a Vache, a small island off Haiti.

Architects working for the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission outlined new plans for an air rescue and firefighting building. The commission also discussed the search for a new manager.

Edgartown selectmen voted Monday to close Cape Pogue Pond to commercial and recreational scalloping, following the recommendation of the town shellfish committee.

Edgartown police are asking for help in a bear-napping caper. The plywood likeness of Smokey that stands by the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest is missing.

An Oak Bluffs woman who was seriously burned early Saturday morning in an Oak Bluffs house fire has been upgraded to good condition.

A seasonal resident of Chilmark stepped up to help stranded sea turtles over the Christmas holiday, arranging for 50 of the endangered reptiles to be flown to warmer waters and rehabilitated.