Now that you have focused us on the brooks and their ponds, let’s keep going and do our best to make the whole system work for all the creatures involved including the people.

Last Tuesday evening members of our community braved the cold and windy weather to show their support of our Island’s only domestic violence and rape crisis center, Connect to end violence.

I have had to find a couple of things to divert myself from Quilt-gate. I went to the excellent presentation on horseshoe crabs at the Oak Bluffs Public Library last Thursday night, and Tuesday afternoon to the eBay talk also at the library.

Last summer I began to attend meetings about a proposed project in Chilmark. The proposal is multifaceted and includes extending the Squibnocket town beach, building a parking lot on a barrier dune area and the construction of a bridge to the former Hornblower property now known as Squibnocket Farms.

I was anticipating that they (the DMF) had recognized and acknowledged that there are some serious issues that need to be addressed in both the whelk and the striped bass fisheries.

On Jan. 31, 2014, the Department of Public Health selected 20 of 100 applicants to receive a provisional license for a registered marijuana dispensary).