Edgartown residents voted by a wide margin at their annual town meeting to spend $3 million to buy or take the run-down Yellow House, capping months of discussion over the property.

After giving speedy and unanimous approval to an $18.2 million budget, West Tisbury town meeting voters picked at the remaining warrant articles Tuesday in a four-hour marathon.

A proposal by the town selectmen to change the board of assessors from elected to appointed positions has brought simmering tensions to a boil in the Island’s smallest town.

On the second and final night of annual town meeting Wednesday, Oak Bluffs followed in the footsteps of other Island towns in adopting a ban on single-use plastic bags in checkout lines.

A superior court judge heard arguments on both sides in a legal dispute over a decision by the Martha’s Vineyard airport commission to not renew a lease for the Airport Mobil station.

At annual town meetings Edgartown agreed to buy the Yellow House, Oak Bluffs refused to spend money to fix the Island Theatre, and West Tisbury played spoiler on roof replacement at the marine hospital.