The scarcity of affordable housing on Martha’s Vineyard is nothing new, but as the Gazette reported in a story earlier this month, the situation seemed to reach a new level of urgency this summer.

The geese are on the move, filling our ears with their noisy clatter overhead and our senses with the season at hand.

On Saturday sometime just after noon Marine One will touch down on the tarmac at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport carrying its precious cargo: the president of the United States and his family.

Summer on the Vineyard is many things, but lately it seems to have become the season of fundraisers. Hardly a day goes by without an invitation to a party or event to benefit one of a multitude of causes.

We can’t know what Henry Beetle Hough might think about the proposed de-extinction project, but we would do well to be reminded of his leadership and willingness to think outside the box.

Though there is only one gravel pit on the Vineyard, the issue is not so different from other neighborhood squabbles occurring more frequently all over the Island where action by one property owner impinges on the lifestyle of another.