The weekend weather demonstrated a tried and true maxim for competitors in the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby: east is least, west is best. Plenty of fish were weighed in Saturday, but there was a drop off Sunday and Monday.

During the summer season about 14,000 cars travel Beach Road each day. Tisbury selectmen will address plans to make the area safer and more user friendly for bicyclists and pedestrians at their meeting Tuesday.

Early Sunday morning, Hannah Gibb was the first to arrive at the Oak Bluffs ferry gate, ready to cast off the Steamship Authority wharf as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby’s annual kids’ day, which kicked off at 6 a.m.

Aquinnah residents may be better off sheltering in place during severe storms, the town’s emergency management director said this week.

Wendell (Leo) Frame was found not guilty Friday on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person older than 14 after a two-day jury trial in Edgartown district court.