The principles governing the management of affordable housing were the subject of a spirited debate in Chilmark last week.

On the table were deed riders for two affordable homesites in town and draft changes to guidelines submitted by the affordable housing committee.

At issue were two questions: Should Chilmark affordable housing lots stay in the family regardless of income, or stay affordable forever? And should developers who contribute affordable lots be allowed to decide who the lots go to?

Family and friends remembered Jena Pothier as a funny and vivacious young woman at a memorial held at Our Lady Star of the Sea church in Oak Bluffs Wednesday morning.

Ms. Pothier was a graduate of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and had recently completed her freshman year at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire when she was killed in a car crash last Thursday night in West Tisbury. She was 18.

Cousin Jay Pothier remembered the little girl on his shoulders at the Oak Bluffs summer fireworks, and described the young woman she became.

Aquinnah selectmen voted this week to seek the advice of town counsel over the failure of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) to clean an area of Menemsha Pond left heavily littered by an abandoned oyster propagation project.

The latest in a series of deadlines passed Wednesday to clean the waters and beach around two groundwater lots leased from the town by the tribe.

At a Tuesday meeting selectman Camille Rose said she had visited the pond site recently and saw the cleaning job was yet to be completed.

Edgartown fell short of a quorum by about 30 voters last night, missing the chance to pay its share of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission budget with available money from 2009.

The town had planned to pay using money from available funds for 2009. Doing so would have avoided putting the town over the levy limit for the coming year.

Now the town is faced with financial uncertainty and has yet to secure voter permission to make the mandatory annual payment to the commission.

A stay of execution was granted on one of Chilmark’s few remaining pre-Revolutionary houses at a well attended meeting of the historical commission Wednesday.

The so-called Tilton-Weckman house, set off from North Road, is a shingled, gable-roofed building flanked by a high curving stone wall on a two-acre lot, part of property owned by Diana and Roy Vagelos.

The principle structure dates back to the mid-18th century and was owned by the Tiltons, a family whose Vineyard history is long and storied.