Predictions of this week's three-day northeaster were a bit of a reach.

Becoming the first Island town to pass the Community Preservation Act, voters in West Tisbury this week proved they could put their money where their mouth was when it came to affordable housing.

If you came into gym class at the regional high school looking for Jay Schofield, it might take a minute to find him. He's not out in the center of the floor with the other two gym teachers.

In 1997, Vineyard House opened its doors for the first time. Last week the organization added more doors, closing on the purchase of a third house.

Like its first two homes, the Oak Bluffs house will serve as a place where Islanders can recover from drug and alcohol addictions and begin rebuilding their lives on the Vineyard.

By and large, the 40-odd Islanders who came out for last night's forum on the Steamship Authority's new service model accepted the logic behind the proposal but questioned the details that will make it all work.

"The Tisbury Police Department environment is dysfunctional, at best, with continual tension between police officers and management," declares a new report made public at the Feb. 27 meeting of the Tisbury board of selectmen. The 22-page report is the product of a four-month study commissioned by selectmen and undertaken by seasonal Island resident Robert Wasserman of the consulting firm PSComm LLC.