Edgartown selectmen approved a series of parking reforms Monday that included additional time allowances at parking spaces, increased fines for violations, and a name change for the Dark Woods Trolley Lot, the sinisterly monikered park-and-ride at the entrance to Edgartown.

The rulings follow the recommendations of the Edgartown planning board and a voluntary parking committee, who have met for the past five months to come up with ways to alleviate parking pressure in downtown Edgartown.

Corrections

A news article that ran in the Feb. 29 edition of the Gazette and an editorial in last Friday’s edition inaccurately described services at the Aquinnah Public Library. The hours of operation have not been scaled back. The Gazette regrets the errors.

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In a markedly short meeting by Oak Bluffs standards, selectmen on Tuesday breezed through a wide variety of hot topics including the growing likelihood of an override for next year’s budget — the first in six years — and plans for emergency repairs to a 30-ton retaining wall that collapsed along Sea View avenue last month.

Plans for the collapsed retaining wall drew darts from Nancy Phillips, who complained that officials had focused their efforts on a plan that would negate another proposal for the revitalization of the town waterfront.

This past Sunday saw the earliest recorded spring appearance of an osprey on the Vineyard, fishing Brine’s Pond on Chappaquiddick. The prior record was set on March 14, 2002.

It seemed an unlikely coincidence that on the very day the community consultation process on the Cape Wind project began, another wind project should suddenly pop into the world, one conveniently out of sight of land, and apparently on the best of terms with the opponents of Cape Wind.

And indeed, it proved not to be a coincidence, as the general manager of the proponent company made clear on Monday.