New data show an aging Island with a continuing housing crisis and some of the inequality affecting the rest of the country.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission has prepared a $1.42 million budget showing an increase of less than one per cent over last year.

The MVC is racing to apply for a major federal grant to fund the installation of permeable reactive barriers, a strategy never before used on the Vineyard.

Working as a group, six Island planning boards have launched an initiative that aims to create hundreds of affordable housing units over the next 10 years.

A proposal to greatly expand the Edgartown transfer station heads back to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission next month for a continued public hearing, where commissioners hope to fill in some of the gaps in the $2.5 million plan.

With dredging season in Edgartown coming to an end, Fuller Street Beach has gotten a makeover, and boaters can look forward to safer passage in Eel Pond.