The Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living, formerly the Island Council on Aging, mapped out a plan to strengthen its programs — and locate a permanent home for them — at its annual meeting last week.

Bracing for a nasty flu season, Chilmark selectmen voted Tuesday to adopt an influenza pandemic plan, urging town employees to stay home when sick and extending sick days to town workers who have not accrued sick leave.

“We don’t want people to think they should be a good trooper and come to work [when they have flu symptoms],” said selectman Warren Doty, who added that staying home is “the way to reduce everybody’s chance of exposure.”

The time has come for Edgartown to pay its overdue bill to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

Last spring the town selectmen decided to put the town’s annual assessment to the commission on the April ballot as an override question. It was meant to be a symbolic gesture following some disenchantment in town over how the commission handled its budget process during the year.

But the ballot vote failed and the $274,000 payment was left hanging.

And now, five months into the fiscal year, the debt still stands.

Because Oak Bluffs has not secured the proper permits necessary to enlist the Edgartown dredge for a planned project in Sengekontacket Pond, the town dredge is set to begin another project in Anthier’s Pond on the Edgartown side, dredge committee chairman Norman Rankow told the Edgartown selectmen on Monday.

“We were kind of on standby for Oak Bluffs,” Mr. Rankow said. He said instead now Edgartown will move forward with its own dredging needs. “We’re going into the pond probably next week,” Mr. Rankow said.

It’s easy to be cynical about love these days. Divorce rates seem always on the rise and tabloid fodder makes a public mockery of marriage and commitment. But some people are still able to hold on for a lifetime, or longer.

A Friday night event at the Bunch of Grapes bookstore, billed as a book discussion, turned out to be more a testament by a loving wife to her late husband. At the event, Rose Styron offered a bittersweet glimpse into the relationship that spanned the major part of her life so far; her marriage to fellow writer William Styron.

In the aftermath of a drawn-out cleanup project for a failed oyster hatchery on Menemsha Pond, selectmen have asked the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) to develop a detailed plan for future use of the site before they will consider a new lease on the pond.