Edgartown

Joshua H. Levinson and Kara Levinson purchased 5 Ogden Lane in Edgartown from 87West Tisbury Road LLC. for $2,750,000 on Nov. 13.

LHL Trust LLC. purchased 5 Llewellyn Way in Edgartown from Stephen M. Carr Trust and Diane M. Carr Trust for $2,994,000 on Nov. 13.

Oak Bluffs

Elizabeth Edge and Lee Taberner purchased 51 Brush Pond in Oak Bluffs from Scott E. Taberner and Karen A. Silva-Taberner for $200,000 on Nov. 14.

West Tisbury

Sometimes it’s hard to weave together the uplifting with the sorrow.

Here’s something to think about over the winter: fire hydrants on Chappy.

Debbie MacInnis and I were going to The Barn in Oak Bluffs along Beach Road to play trivia.

Virginia Jones, a highly-principled member and chairman of the town’s planning board since the mid-1980s, has died.

Since next week is the big day, here is my Thanksgiving story.

Katie Chapman and Andy Chapman, of Vineyard Haven, announce the birth of a son, Leroy Charles Chapman, born on Nov. 18.

Riemary Pizzico and Douglas Pizzico, of Edgartown, announce the birth of a daughter, Isabel Pizzico, born on Nov. 13 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Isabel weighed 8 pounds, 11.9 ounces at birth.

Suellen DeJesus Furtado and Joao Furtado, of Vineyard Haven, announce the birth of a daughter, Sarah DeJesus Furtado, born on Nov. 16.

Scientists in the northern boreal forests have noted widespread crops of evergreen cones this year.