After more than three hours of public testimony Sept. 11, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission closed its long-delayed public hearing on Edgartown Gardens, a proposed 60-unit, 96-bedroom condominium complex between Upper Main street and Chase Road in Edgartown.

At the Tisbury special town meeting Sept. 30, voters will decide on new licensing fees for dogs and dog kennels, including a proposed new bylaw detailing how a kennel is defined.

After 14 years of nightly dinners at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Oak Bluffs, Chef Deon’s Kitchen will close for good later this month, serving its final meals on Sept. 21.

The Shields National Championship Regatta returned to Edgartown last week, with 24 boats battling it out over three days of racing off Cow Bay in a series marked by strong southwest winds and two rescues at sea.

Steamship Authority officials this week unveiled potential rate increases for customers next year — including Islanders, whose heavily subsidized excursion fares could be going up for the first time since 2021.

Clarence Barnes III, universally known as Trip, received a warm response from the Tisbury planning board when he proposed establishing the town’s first inland gas station at 392 State Road.