Working in frigid conditions, volunteer firefighters quickly contained a blaze in a multifamily home in Edgartown Thursday night, but were unable to save a family dog.

Walter Robinson, the editor who led the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, spoke before a sold-out crowd at the Vineyard Gazette this week.

A long-pending bill to reform the Massachusetts Public Records Law is back on track to become reality after clearing the state senate last week. The bill now goes to conference committee.

The dredging of the Menemsha channel isn’t the first Army Corps project to suffer from delays since the federal government approved more than $50 billion in recovery aid after Hurricane Sandy.

On Saturday, Feb. 13, the 20-Miler and Amity Island Relay will take place beginning at 11 a.m.