The town of Oak Bluffs last week began dredging the Little Bridge channel after a permitting snafu left the project in limbo for months.
Yanked like a puppet from 20 feet above Sengekontacket Pond, Nevin Sayre nearly lost his life when he hit the water in a kite-surfing accident earlier this month.
The Friends of Sengekontacket has expanded its summer internship program to two positions.
A long-simmering dispute over bay scallop fishing in Oak Bluffs has erupted in physical confrontation, theft, and vandalism over the past month.
A Sengekontacket oyster project has been such a success that the shellfish department will ask selectmen to open the pond to commercial oystering.
Selectmen this week tried to broker a compromise solution in a heated dispute among town shellfishermen over the closing of Sengekontacket Pond to bay scalloping on the Oak Bluffs side.