Edgartown police and town officials are looking into whether sea planes are permitted on the Great Pond after neighborhood complaints of a Cessna Skyhawk landing there.

At the selectmen’s meeting Monday, town administrator Pamela Dolby said that over the last few weekends there have been reports of a sea plane landing in the Edgartown Great Pond, at Wilson’s Landing.

“It’s a great concern to people who live in the neighborhood,” Mrs. Dolby said.

Time is of the essence — an age-old adage. Nobody had to tell Rubin Cronig. At just 24 years of age, he has been embodying the mantra since he was 10.

Mary Hurley Gosselin had an awful blind date in high school. She and her date had gone to play mini golf, she remembered, but “the game was terrible, [and] the date was worse.” After that, Mrs. Gosselin said, “I wanted nothing to do with mini golf.”

The British came, but this time they were invited. In a replay with a twist of the New England battles that took place almost 236 years ago, the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks took on the British National baseball team on Saturday evening.

It was the best night in recent memory. That was the feedback Martha’s Vineyard Museum executive director David Nathans said he received following the annual Evening of Discovery fundraiser on Saturday night. Held at the site of the museum’s future home, the old marine hospital overlooking the Lagoon Pond in Vineyard Haven, the event sold out for the first time in recent years and the mood was festive and upbeat.

Arts Crawl

The Arts District on Dukes County avenue in Oak Bluffs invites everyone to crawl with them evert Thursday evenings in July. All the galleries will stay open late for lingering over art with the artists, gallery owners and friends.

First evening crawl is this Thursday, July 5.

On Saturday, at the bow of the historic schooner Alabama, Capt. Ian Ridgeway addressed a group of Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School fifth and sixth grade students who had just returned from a five-day sail at sea.

“This is a bond that the 20 or so of us will all have together for the rest of our lives,” he said. “You are now ambassadors for this boat.”

Writers are everywhere, often hiding in plain sight. They’re under umbrellas in Oregon. They sit in the sweltering Georgia sun. They live across the ocean and in different continents. They are also on the Vineyard, and in greater number from July 15 to 20, thanks to the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, which is about to begin its third year as a haven for developing writers.

Great music accompanies great pizza when singer/songwriter Scott Kirby comes to the Vineyard to play at Flatbread Pizza on July 5 and 6, both shows beginning at 9 p.m.

A group of middle school girls cautiously approached a pile of Dutch belted calves at the Farm Institute one morning last week, dodging large piles of dung and tiptoeing their way closer.

“They’re big,” one girl said of the seven-week-old calves.

“They’re cute,” said another.

“This one is especially friendly,” farm educator Emily Palena said. “The worst thing she’ll do is lick you.”