There was an early morning theft today at derby headquarters: A gull swept down while fillet master Hank Unczur wasn’t looking and stole one of his four bluefish fillets.

It’s only day three of the derby, but the herring gulls have taken up residence at the Edgartown Yacht Club and the newly-built Boathouse restaurant during derby weigh-in. Prematurely ready, the gulls are well-versed as they are in the affairs of the derby. They, too, know when it is derby time.

He calls families little monasteries, with children as their great Zen masters; she compares families to a laboratory, an ever-changing joyful puzzle. He is one of the country’s best known meditation and mindfulness gurus; she, a childbirth educator and environmental advocate. Together, Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn authored a groundbreaking book on family health and happiness called Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting.

Concerns are growing that repairs to the seriously fire-damaged Bunch of Grapes Bookstore could be frustrated by the fact that the neighboring Café Moxie — where the fire began — still has not been fully demolished.

At last week’s meeting of the Tisbury selectmen, Jeff Kristal raised his concerns and those of the Bunch of Grapes building owner Ann Nelson that inactivity on the Moxie site could delay the planned spring reopening of the Bunch of Grapes.

The number of kindergartners who are not fully immunized was above the state average in three of the five Vineyard towns with elementary schools last year, a fact which worries Island doctors who see the choice of parents to not immunize their child against illnesses such as mumps, measles and rubella as a threat not only to the health of that child but the school community at large.