The restaurant at Chilmark’s Beach Plum Inn will open this May with a new head chef. Josh Aronie, who led the kitchen at the nearby Home Port Restaurant last summer, will oversee both restaurants this year.

Late last week, Dreamland in Oak Bluffs opened as Loft at Dreamland, an year-round adult game room and bar.

Friends of mvyradio have announced that Louisa Gould has been named executive director of the radio station.

State legislators and regional tourism directors are pushing back against proposed budget cuts for the state’s tourism office, which they said could hurt the Vineyard’s cornerstone tourism industry.

Santander Bank will be closing its branch on South Road in Chilmark at the end of May. A spokeswoman for the company told the Gazette Tuesday that the decision to close the up-Island branch came after a regular review of branches and customer patterns.

The Vineyard’s first offshore blue mussel farm has a new owner with a long-term vision for the local fishing industry. Stanley Larsen, owner of Menemsha Fish Market, recently took over a shellfish grant for the continued operation of the aquaculture farm.