The commission has helped us maintain reasonable growth while protecting the environment. The world now looks at us as a special vacation destination, with increasing admiration because of our respect for our natural setting.

I write in defense of Roger Wey. In all the many years I have known Roger (and particularly when he was a selectman of Oak Bluffs) the Roger I knew was honest, considerate and helpful.

I invite everyone to come hear Steve Hurley, southeast district fisheries manager for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, talk about the results of the fish sampling survey undertaken on Mill Brook in September 2012.

With the advent of my granddaughter’s becoming a freshman at our regional high school, my horizon has changed, broadened, expanded and become much more colorful.

As co-facilitators of the Memory Support Group, we are grateful to our group members and their families who graciously agreed to share their stories openly so that Mr. Eville and his readers might become familiar with their world and their challenges.

From the “On Circuit Avenue, And All About Town” column by Louise Aldrich Bugbee in the Vineyard Gazette edition of March 8, 1974: