Sandy Stone-Benjamin fell in love with dance in the third grade, and later went on to perform with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Recently, she opened the Spindrift dance studio where she teaches modern dance, jazz, ballet and tap.

The up-Island regional school district committee struggled to make significant cuts to its budget this week amid growing confusion over the implications of West Tisbury’s refusal to pay all of its share.

Oak Bluffs has reached an agreement with an Eastville homeowner who had sued the town over an aquaculture venture near his home.

Faced with a large deficit in school funding in West Tisbury, up-Island school committee members agreed to cut $166,000 from the district budget at a somber meeting Monday. The committee meets again Thursday.

A Cape and Islands business association has named Holly Bellebuono as their entrepreneur of the year. Ms. Bellebuono, who owns Vineyard Herbs, Teas and Apothecary, is the first Vineyarder to receive the SCORE small business award.

Each of the five traditional public school districts on the Vineyard does its own thing, right down to the toilet paper, schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss said in the first of five forums on the state of the schools.