The 5:30 a.m. freight departure from Vineyard Haven is back in business for the next couple of months, after regulatory complications pushed back planned dock work at the Steamship Authority terminal until this fall.

Oak Bluffs is seeking permission from the Martha's Vineyard Commission to reinforce the eroding East Chop bluff.

A four-person committee of Steamship Authority governing board and port council members will interview four executive search firms for the job of finding a new general manager to replace Robert Davis.

Island nonprofit leaders are remembering Sam Feldman, who died on Jan. 8 at 95, as a true mensch: a man of boundless good will and generosity, who never tired of finding ways to help others and bring people together.

Developer Xerxes Aghassipour has filed a lawsuit against four people, including a member of the Tisbury planning board and the board’s staff administrator, claiming they engaged in a conspiracy to discredit his reputation and violate his rights by abusing the legal process.

Acting Tisbury fire chief Patrick Rolston can now call the job his own, after the select board voted Friday afternoon to make the arrangement permanent.