As a senior editor at Discover Magazine, science journalist Pamela Weintraub had covered myriad scientific dramas throughout her career. But it was her own family’s medical odyssey with Lyme disease — and the book she wrote about it, Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic — that brought her to speak on Monday to about 60 people on Martha’s Vineyard, where tick-borne illness is one of the most serious and prevalent health concerns.

There aren’t many opportunities in life to achieve the elusive standard of perfection. And some people spend their whole lives trying. But as a wise man once said, “When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.”

The former Tuscany Inn in Edgartown sold for $2.7 million yesterday in a foreclosure auction at the historic property on North Water street.

An Island resident reportedly has bought the former inn, which currently houses l’etoile restaurant. The name of the new owner has not been disclosed. Michael Brisson, owner of l’etoile, said he does not expect the sale to affect his business. “For the foreseeable future l’etoile’s lease is secure and I look forward to working with the new owners,” Mr. Brisson said.

Unitarian Talk

Tom Hale, who joined the Unitarian Church in Vineyard Haven in 1961, will speak at the church this Sunday, May 24, at 11 a.m. in a talk entitled: I am a Unitarian: What am I?

Gas

Prices for regular unleaded gas as of May 18:

Edgartown

Airport Mobil $2.939

Depot Corner $2.899

Edgartown Mobil $2.999

Oak Bluffs

deBettencourt’s $2.929

Jim’s $2.999

Vineyard Haven

Citgo $2.939

Tisbury Shell $2.939

West Tisbury

Up-Island Automotive $2.889

Menemsha

Menemsha Texaco $2.779

An Aquinnah special town meeting was postponed for lack of a quorum Tuesday and is rescheduled for Wednesday, June 3 at 7 p.m.

The meeting came on the tails of a busy political week for the town, with the annual town meeting and election which both saw solid voter turnout.

The Wampanoag tribe has another 30 days to clean up the mess at Menemsha Pond left by an oyster propagation project abandoned over two years ago.

Aquinnah selectmen voted Tuesday to grant the extra grace period on top of an original 60-day cleanup deadline. In exchange, tribal leaders were asked to prepare a plan detailing a scaled-back proposal for a future shellfish operation in the area.

Meanwhile, selectmen have made no move to renew a tribe’s bottom grant in the pond.

It is a violation of the Massachusetts Ethics Law for a member of a town community preservation committee who also sits on a private nonprofit board to participate in a decision that grants Community Preservation Act funds to the nonprofit.

This is the opinion of Edgartown town counsel Ronald H. Rappaport, who was recently asked by the town administrator to research the question.

Tommy Osmers’s behavior at the benefit function thrown for him last Sunday night belied the dire state of his health. He cruised the party, chatting, joking and checking out the women. He danced, played a little boogie woogie piano, and even used the occasion to give a little talk on the state of the marine environment.

“I was charged right up,” he said a few days later. “I don’t think I looked a sick man.”

Hope for an ailing Island commercial fishery was on the menu at the Home Port restaurant in Menemsha Wednesday night, along with some hearty chowder and fresh herb-crusted swordfish.

Most of the Island fishing community was on hand for the first annual meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Dukes County Fishermen’s Association, along with representatives from Cape Cod and Maine.