At the risk of playing Scrooge at Christmastime, we feel compelled to question the plan to hold the Oak Bluffs town holiday party next week at a restaurant and bar owned by one of the town selectmen.

If gambling is about winning, it’s hard to see victory for anyone in the lawsuit brought last month by Gov. Deval Patrick against the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).

They’ve been seen and photographed at Katama in Edgartown, on Beach Road in Oak Bluffs and on windswept beaches from Cape Pogue to Aquinnah.

I always look forward to Mollie Doyle’s Gazette series, A Day in the Life. The pieces are invariably well written and interesting, but this week’s report on our Island saint, Bridget Tobin, actually made me weepy.

Last week we learned that the Vineyard Nursing Association — a critical health care resource for the Vineyard — is struggling with financial difficulties.

You might be able to catch the turkey in a large Vari kennel. Put the food all the way back in it and face it away from you so he won’t see you when you reach over to close the door.