Fallout from the Island Affordable Housing Fund’s recent shortfall in payments for the Island’s rental assistance program emerged at the Edgartown selectmen’s meeting Monday. The board approved a request from the Edgartown Housing Trust to transfer up to $10,000 of Community Preservation Act (CPA) money to assist tenants and landlords in Edgartown who are part of the affordable housing program for rental conversion.

If is true that the third time is a charm, then town leaders in Aquinnah may see their long hours of hard work on a wind energy bylaw pay off when they bring it in front of voters at a special town meeting on Tuesday night.

Rejected twice by Aquinnah voters at town meetings in the past two years, the bylaw has been shortened, reworked and rewritten to make it more readable.

The Chilmark selectmen this week stood by their decision to allow the owners of a pointing griffon named Maisy to send the dog off-Island for rigorous training and not be put to sleep. Last month Maisy attacked a Yorkshire terrier that later died as a result of his injuries.

Sparks flew at the Aquinnah selectmen’s meeting Tuesday night when one board member clashed with a town businessman, claiming that he had knowingly acted outside the law this summer by storing alcohol in a truck on his property.

The board held off on renewing Matthew (Cully) Vanderhoop’s liquor license for the Aquinnah Shop restaurant after selectman Camille Rose said she could not in good conscience approve the request for someone who had repeatedly failed to follow the law.