The Federal Aviation Administration this week gave its imprimatur to the Cape Wind development on Nantucket Sound, but with expensive strings attached.

In its decision, the FAA determined the 130-turbine wind farm would have “no substantial effect” on air traffic, but also insisted the project developers pay for the upgrading of radar covering the area.

Tisbury selectmen are expected to hold the first hearings on beer and wine licenses on July 15, as some restaurant owners rush to complete the approval process in time to catch the summer trade.

The public hearings will consider applications from Zephrus restaurant at the Mansion House on Main street, and Saltwater restaurant on Beach Road, the first to have filed their applications.

The detailed application packages were only made available by the town a week ago, but those two establishments had begun compiling the necessary information in advance.

Stan Hart won’t have to wait much longer to see his life all bound and done. Happily finished.

The order has been placed for copies of his novel; paperbacks should be available by early next week. And a proof copy of his other, nonfiction book was delivered to his bedside on Wednesday.

The scramble has begun among Tisbury restaurant owners seeking to sell beer and wine, to get their license applications completed if they hope to cash in on this summer’s tourist season.

After the years of debate about whether or not to allow alcohol sales in town, and more debate about local regulations, town hall finally made application packages available late yesterday, two days after the selectmen finalized the regulations.

Five cents a day. That is the best available prediction of how the Cape Wind development will add to the power bill of the average household if and when its electricity begins to flow in 2013.

The estimate comes not from the Cape Wind developers themselves, but from the transmission company which has contracted to buy power generated by the proposed 130-turbine development in Nantucket Sound.

Tisbury selectmen are expected to finalize regulations for the sale of beer and wine, and also to set a date for a special town meeting when they meet next Tuesday.

If all goes according to plan, town restaurant owners will be able to apply from next Wednesday to have their establishments licensed. And voters will meet, probably on June 29, to reconsider a proposal to pay $225,000 in extra wages to the Tisbury police.