The massive housing bill passed Tuesday includes policies that explicitly give the Vineyard new ways to develop housing, allow accessory dwelling units by right in certain areas and make special allowances for towns with fluctuating populations. 

The sighting was around 9 a.m., according to The Trustees of Reservations, which manages the refuge, and swimming was restricted for two hours.

State contractors entered the state forest this week and cleared three homeless encampments, razing tents and leaving several Islanders without their possessions.

Though pieces of the broken Vineyard Wind turbine continued to fall into the ocean south of the Island this week, federal regulators have approved the wind farm to lay cables.

Edgartown sent out a swimming advisory to beachgoers Wednesday after pieces of foam from Vineyard Wind’s broken wind turbine washed up on Norton Point and South Beach.