Amid the colors of sunset, a thin crescent moon hangs low in the southwestern sky Friday night.

Beach plum flowers are blooming, and now is the time to locate this illustrious Island ingredient.

Concerns about overflowing parking at town-owned Collins Beach during the summer came before the Edgartown selectmen this week, who agreed to look into the issue. The small harborfront beach sits off an extension of Cooke street.

At the West Tisbury School on Friday, students ate fresh fish and lobster, learned about the fish food chain and even posed with live fish as part of the Massachusetts Farm to School’s Harvest of the Month seafood celebration.

The big news this week in astronomy circles is the discovery of a super nova in the constellation Cygnus.

This year’s theme for the Art of Conservation contest sponsored by the Vineyard Conservation Society was Discovery.