Seventy years ago Addie Crist and Irene Flanders sat together to sew six red cloth stockings.

Dean’s List

Scott Yapp, son of Robert and Debra Yapp of West Tisbury, was named to the dean’s list at Syracuse University for the spring 2007 semester. Mr. Yapp is majoring in computer art and minoring in entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises.

It is impossible to determine the total deer population on the Island, although most hunters readily agree to two things: the deer are out there, they are just harder to reach.

With the Island deer shotgun season scheduled to start Monday and run through Dec. 8, there are reasons to expect a healthy if not record-setting number of deer to be taken. For starters, the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife last year agreed to expand the season from six to 12 days to help reduce the number of deer ticks, the primary transmitter of Lyme disease.

Oak Bluffs voters next month will decide whether the town should fund an engineering survey of the town beach, expand the membership of its personnel board and start work to improve the road layout, sidewalks and railings along Seaview avenue.

Selectmen on Tuesday approved 17 articles for a Dec. 11 special town meeting. Selectmen approved all the articles unanimously and with little discussion, including a request for $65,000 for an engineering study of the beach, bank and seawall from the North Bluff to Farm Pond.