The winter blahs have set in. We are less than two short months away from the start of Daylight Saving time and spring. The line at the Up-Island gas station was long Sunday with people taking advantage of the special Sunday price of fuel. Go Patriots, beat Jacksonville.

Tara Whiting, town clerk, reports that nomination papers for the annual town elections are available. They need to have 20 signatures of registered voters in this town and return it to the town clerk by 5 p.m. Feb. 22. If you need an absentee ballot, you must submit one or come in and fill out an absentee ballot application. Applications are good for a calendar year only and for anyone who requested one last year it has expired. Call 508-696-0148 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with questions.

Cynthia Riggs of Edgartown Road reports that everyone is invited to her 30th annual Groundhog Day celebration on Friday, Feb. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Cleaveland House, on Edgartown Road. All are welcome. Bring your favorite hors d’ouvres, if you’d like, but that’s not a requirement. For information call 508-693-9352.

Marjorie Peirce reports that the Wednesday night community suppers have begun at the First Congregational Church. Dinner is at 5:30 p.m. but you may come in from the cold starting at 5 p.m. for coffee and fellowship. All are welcome. If you have questions or need transportation please call the church office at 508-693-2842. Also, if you would like to make a contribution of food please contact Marjorie directly at 508-221-0314.

Olivia Larsen over at the library reports on some of the upcoming activities: Tomorrow at 4 p.m., Sassafras Earth Education’s Saskia Vanderhoop will give a talk titled, Connecting with Nature. Saskia will discuss the importance of families spending time outside and strategies for staying connected to the outdoors in winter. On Sunday at 3 p.m., join them for a home energy presentation with the Cape Light Compact. Learn how to understand your electric bill and ways that you can save energy and money through energy efficiency. The event is co-sponsored by the Library and the green team of the First Congregational Church. On Monday at 7 p.m. join them for a jazz film screening and discussion with MVY Radio’s Dave Kish. This month’s film is a documentary about John Coltrane.

History note: On Feb. 1, 1954 Stanley Eddy of Chilmark announced he had leased the former Ole Borgen/Maud Call store which he had purchased at public auction last summer to Miss Erdine Cobb, of New York city. The building had many uses over the years, store, post office, a parlor that featured famous home-made ice cream and penny candy. It was also the headquarters of the only filling station in North Tisbury which sold Texaco Fire Chief gasoline and had just one pump. Miss Cobb planned to operate a special kind of catering service that will be limited to providing casserole dishes, hors d’oeurves, sandwiches and canapés for cocktail parties and teas. She named her business the Covered Dish.

Happy birthday to: Patty Linn, Christine Wiley, Roy Hope, Inez Janger and Jessica Daniels today, Nancy Cabot, Lee McCormack, Nancy Rogers, Jena Wingood and Mary Pate tomorrow; Bob Luskin, Carl Tack, Nili Goldstein and Peter Benjamin on Sunday; Sandy Atwood and Anya Toteanu on Monday; Georgiana White, Ann Quigley, Kristine Scheffer, Alexandra Rothwell and Paul Vanlandingham on Tuesday; Zack Wiesner, Lewis Waring and Dan Sharkovitz on Wednesday; Abigail Higgins, Tony Omer, Avril Espy, Mitchell Gordon and Justin Polishook on Thuyrsday. Belated birthday greetings to Catherine Deese. Belated anniversary greetings to Chris and Diane Abbot. Belated birthday wishes to Aki Sharpe.

Well, that is all the social news for this week’s edition. If you have any news please call or email me. A trivia item that could come in handy at your next social gathering: Our Market, in Oak Bluffs, received its first shipment of Krueger’s canned beer and ale 83 years ago Thursday. Krueger was the first brewery to try this new method of marketing their product and it was an instant success. Have a great week.

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