In the middle of February, Kevco Professional Painting owner Kevin Morris normally would be painting indoors.
Instead, he was loading power washing equipment into his pickup truck to go work on a customer's back deck.
Winter on the Vineyard typically is a far cry from being pleasant for outside work. But this winter has not been a typical, adding up so far to one of the least snowy on record. That day last month, Morris found, was a sunny 50 degrees.
Parents and teachers packed themselves into the community room at the Edgartown School on Wednesday night to hear which of the three finalist candidates for the principal position the superintendent and school committee had chosen - but then learned that none of the three had been chosen.
Forced to choose the assessment method that is most likely to gain the needed approval - or else face the possibility of entering the next fiscal year without a budget - the regional high school district committee voted Monday to continue using the long-held enrollment-based formula in the regional agreement, rather than the "statutory" formula put forward by the state.
Due to high bacteria counts, the state Division of Marine Fisheries closed portions of two large Island ponds to shellfishing this week - one up-Island and the other down-Island.
The closures are effective immediately in part of the Tisbury Great Pond and at Major's Cove in Sengekontacket Pond, although town leaders have not yet received official letters of notification.
In a break with tradition, Tisbury will hold a special town meeting next Tuesday that will include over $450,000 in spending articles for town improvement projects, including road and sidewalk work, caterpillar spraying and historic building repairs.
Voters will take up the 22-article warrant in the Tisbury School gymnasium, where town moderator Deborah Medders will open the meeting at 7:30 p.m.
The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School district committee was on the receiving end of some tough questions on Monday night - all of them centered on drugs at the high school.
What would happen if a police dog found drugs in a student's locker? Would it automatically become a police matter? What if one student put drugs in another student's locker - or in a teacher's things? And what about student rights?