Moles have not been bestowed with the best of reputations. The Bible described them as “creeping things that creep on the earth.”

With support from officials, a group of residents will get out their shovels and widen a channel between James Pond and Vineyard Sound.

The Department of Marine Fisheries has rescheduled a meeting about whelk fishery management for March 30 at 9 a.m. at Edgartown Town Hall.

Two public hearing on proposed amendments to Vibrio management regulations this year have been rescheduled from early March to later in the month.

High school science students channeled Cupid for the February engineering challenge.

A state ban on commercial food waste has yet to be enforced, but Islanders have launched a comprehensive study of the issue.