Carly Simon, the celebrated pop songwriter and musical pioneer who began her musical career as a young singer on the Vineyard and lives here year-round, has taken a big step to give Vineyard musicians a way to stay connected with each other in the digital age. This week she launched a Web site, vineyardmusicall.com, as a way to help local musicians connect to each other.

The county communications center, a hub for all dispatches from police, fire and other public safety agencies, is about to go underground. In two months, the $1.5 million project to expand the space and further improve services to the county will relocate the center from a one-level, too-small ranch house at the airport into the large basement of the county’s Community Correction Center next door.

There is a group of about 1,500 winter commuters a day between the Cape and Martha’s Vineyard, and not one of them takes the ferry. They all fly.

The commuters are crows. They leave for the Cape early in the morning and return to the Vineyard around 4 p.m. to spend the night here.

The phenomenon, known among some birders for years, is now the subject of a scientific study that promises to shed light on the reasons for, and effects of, this curious behavior.

Opinions on the future of Mill Pond and the future of Mill Brook were more varied than the options at a Saturday afternoon forum held at the West Tisbury Library. The townspeople and others who packed the meeting room kept coming back to a central point: The pond and the brook that feeds it are among the town’s most valued resources and worthy of concern and some kind of action.

Without any action, experts say the pond will continue to choke as more and more sediment and organic materials continue to arrive and fill it.