The Martha’s Vineyard Airport commission voted last week to buy the bulk of the electricity for the Island airport from a New York private equity fund that develops solar power facilities.

Let the wooden nickel collecting begin: the Newes from America Pub in Edgartown officially reopened on Friday, Sept. 2 after being closed since June because of a plumbing incident.

At a turbulent public hearing before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission last week, a plan by the Oak Bluffs water district to clear forest for the town’s first municipal solar array came under fire.

Samantha Church wasn’t planning on becoming a businesswoman. But she saw a market for a locals-only jewelry store on Circuit avenue, the busiest street in Oak Bluffs, and last summer opened Driftwood.

A plan by the Oak Bluffs water district to build a solar array off Barnes Road has been downsized, but continues to draw heat from ecologists who oppose removing a large swath of old-growth forest.

Adrian Smith has been carving animals into stone since he was a teenager. It is a meditative process, which appeals to the artist, who sells his pieces out of his small gallery nearly hidden off Main street in Vineyard Haven.