Increase in high school enrollment from Oak Bluffs has prompted town officials to consider new ways of calculating the town tax assessment ratio. This year, Oak Bluffs had 22 additional students enroll in the high school.

Overtime fines in Tisbury are currently set at $15 per offense. By comparison, fines are $20 in Oak Bluffs, $25 in Edgartown and Aquinnah, and $30 in Chilmark.

Spring sports at the regional high school are underway and lacrosse, track and field, tennis, sailing, baseball and softball all look to have promising seasons so far.

With races for selectmen, planning board, finance committee and school committee, Oak Bluffs is the only town on the Island to date with a significant number of contests on the ballot. The annual town election is April 10.

The bucolic pond that graces the entrance to town has been the source of long-running disagreement over environmental management methods. At the annual town meeting next week voters will again consider dredging and a watershed study.

Tour of edible trees at the Polly Hill Arboretum educates and informs, but to find real blueberries and hickory nuts, come back in summer and fall.