An Oak Bluffs attorney easily won the Democratic nomination for Dukes County clerk of courts in the state primary Tuesday.

With two local races attracting voter interest, town clerks and poll workers around the Island were reporting steady turnout Tuesday for the state primary. Polls are open in every town from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

John Stevens, longtime educator and principal of the Edgartown School, announced Thursday he will retire next summer.

An administrative lieutenant from Sturbridge is the lone finalist among five applicants for Tisbury police chief. Mark Saloio of Brimfield will be invited for a public interview on Sept. 19.

The Oak Bluffs selectmen voted this week to complete a complicated, long-delayed land swap between the town and the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank involving parcels in the Southern Woodlands.

Steamship Authority governors voiced their strong approval this week for the job Robert Davis has been doing in his first year as general manager.