The Edgartown planning board is set to discuss this week a long-delayed building project at Wave Lengths salon on Upper Main street. On July 29 the town ordered all work stopped on the modular construction project.

A group of Woods Hole residents is challenging state approval of the Steamship Authority terminal reconstruction project in the village, a move that could delay the project.

Tisbury selectmen Tuesday set dates for the scallop season; family scalloping begins Saturday, Oct. 15, outside the Lagoon and Tashmoo. The commercial season opens Oct. 17.

Oak Bluffs selectmen this week discussed concerns about delivery traffic at the Camp Ground and fielded complaints about the Martha’s Vineyard Craft Beer Festival.

Tisbury selectman have designated Drew’s Cove in Lake Tashmoo a no-anchoring zone for an indefinite period of time to protect fragile eelgrass beds near the head of the saltwater estuary.

In July, curbside recycling in Vineyard Haven went from free to $125 a year. Within a couple weeks, the local drop-off in Vineyard Haven was inundated, so much that people had to be turned away.