Although John Abrams isn’t officially retiring until 2022, plans are in the works for Deirdre Bohan to take over as South Mountain Company CEO.

There are 20 Island selectmen, the vast majority of them over 60. But with the deadline still a month away for filing nomination papers, three young candidates have already declared that they will be running.

The Oak Bluffs town hall renovation project has taken another step forward, after selectmen voted Tuesday to hire an owner’s project manager.

Edgartown selectmen will hold a public hearing next week on the VTA’s planned charging station project at the Church Street bus terminal.

The Wampanoag Tribe is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a ruling by a U.S. District Court judge who said the tribe must obtain local and state building permits before it can build a class II gaming facility.

For much of the past decade, the Oak Bluffs ambulance reserve fund has held hundreds of thousands of dollars for the town.