As I pulled into a parking space on Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs a few weeks ago, I heard loud music emanating from the large, shiny, black SUV next to me.

The recent wave of farm stand thefts is a real tragedy to our intimate Island community.

Of late there has been evinced more than usual in the building of the house for Lester H. Dana, on Manter’s Hill, so called, in Chilmark. And if the public was and is interested in the house, the interest by legal lights in the land and its title, has been no less.

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Mozzarella — that was the headline for an article about Flatbread, written soon after the restaurant opened on July 3, 2010.

Eleven acres and a dream. That was how it all began in 1959 when Henry Beetle Hough and Elizabeth Bowie Hough bought the old ice house property in Edgartown and launched the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation.