On Wednesday, March 13, it is time to get salty. Beginning at 5 p.m. the Chilmark library is screening the documentary Salt of the Sea, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Tom Garber.

29 Willow Tree Hollow in West Tisbury sold for $567,000 on Feb. 28.

38 Deer Run in Oak Bluffs sold for $640,000 on March 1.

On Saturday, March 9 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., ACE MV will hold at reading at the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in Vineyard Haven. The reading will feature students from the writing classes of Cynthia Riggs and Nancy Aronie. Featured readers are Cynthia Riggs, Amy Reece, Lisa Belcastro, Catherine Finch, Taffy McCarthy, Kanta Lipsky, Anna Conathan and Joyce Wagner.

A West Tisbury man is being charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after allegedly hitting a police officer with his car when the officer tried to stop him for a drug investigation.

Asa W. French, 27, of West Tisbury, was arraigned March 4 in Edgartown district court on a March 2 charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a motor vehicle).

Johnson and Wales Graduate: Elora Mary Parker of the Vineyard and Rangeley, Me., graduated from Johnson and Wales University with a degree in resort management on Feb. 20. Elora is the daughter of John and Birgitta Parker.

IMP is headed to Chicago. The Island improv troupe has just been named an official selection of the 2013 Chicago Improv Festival. The festival is one the biggest in the country and IMP is the only teen troupe to receive this honor. They perform April 1 to 7, so get your Windy City tickets now.

Prepare to be Betrayed, this time in Edgartown. The one-woman show starring Louise DuArt which premiered to a standing-room-only crowd earlier this winter at Dreamland in Oak Bluffs, will have two more shows this weekend at the Harbor View Hotel, 131 North Water street, Edgartown.

Spruce it up. That is what Islanders did when they planted spruce trees in their yards. Fairly common on the Island, spruce found its way here because of its usefulness and beauty. These conifers prefer more northern climes, thriving in boreal forests.

The question was, “How do you find places to bird watch and stay when you are traveling in the Bird Buggy?” It has been a challenge at times, but mainly a combination of word of mouth, internet research and dumb luck. Vineyard birders Tom Rivers and Lanny McDowell loaned us books entitled How to Find Birds in: Arizona, Texas and Southern California which give specific details on where to locate good birding areas in those states and also how to find information on the latest sightings in an area.