The wooden steeple and bell were removed from the Tisbury town hall on Saturday.

More than 100 Islanders took the stage of the Old Whaling Church before an appreciative audience for the annual Island Community Chorus concert.

A wide-ranging discussion at a packed West Tisbury selectmen’s meeting touched on the history of conservation restrictions that limit use of the Agricultural Hall.

From outside, it looked like they were coming for a dinner party — a small group of people arriving in the early evening, hands in pockets as they stepped onto the narrow porch of an Oak Bluffs cottage.

The question of natural grass versus artificial turf dominated public comment at a meeting called last week to air ongoing plans to overhaul the athletic fields at the regional high school.