With oysters, you can go crazy or be more refined. My favorite use of oysters is using them as food. Deciding on whether to go wild or cultured, though, can be a conundrum.

Spring migration is definitely picking up and it is hard to decide what the “bird of the week” is. Sightings of thrashers, a ruby-throated hummingbird, snowy egrets and more were reported.

Soon after sunset, there are two bright planets standing out among the stars.

Reacting to an April 7 letter from the federal agency, selectmen sounded off about the decision to dredge Menemsha channel despite the town’s objections. “I’m not surprised but I am ticked off,” said selectman Jonathan Mayhew.

On Saturday, in honor of Earth Day, perhaps the best thing to do is become a plant or an animal. Or at least look at the world from the perspective of one.

The Aquinnah selectmen voted to hire International Chimney to relocate the lighthouse. The Buffalo, N.Y., company was the sole bidder and is already known on the Island, where it moved the Schifter home on Chappaquiddick last summer