JANE SLATER

508-645-3378

(slaterjn@comcast.net)

Cheers to all! A whopping 85.3 per cent of the qualified voters in Chilmark turned out for a big vote on Tuesday. It was exciting to feel the passion and energy that everyone put into the whole process of organizing, campaigning, voting, counting and completing the details of such a large vote. I hope your choices won but if they didn’t you are not alone, just keep working for the public good and you can’t go wrong.

HOLLY NADLER

508-687-9239

(hollynadler@gmail.com)

The next full moon is Thursday, it is called the Beaver Moon. In the week ahead, the gibbous moon dominates the night sky, moving through the zodiacal constellation Pisces, one of the largest, and ending up full in Aries, one of the smallest.

Correction

A story in the Oct. 31 Gazette about a fundraiser for Jim Moore reported incorrectly on the type of cancer he has. Mr. Moore has non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The Gazette regrets the error.

JOHN S. ALLEY

508-693-2950

(alleys@vineyard.net)

NANCY GARDELLA

508-693-3308

(vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)

KATHIE CASE

508-627-5349

(kathleencase@comcast.net)

I worked the polls on Tuesday and what a day. There was excitement and plenty of people still making up their minds. There were over 2,000 voters. Some were voting for the first time, either because they were just 18 or because they had recently become citizens. Some had people there taking pictures of them. It was a great day.

Margaret Knight>

508 627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

The Chappaquiddick Community Center has a new look. On the front lawn is a 10-foot-high sculpture made of crossed and curved timbers with a wide steel circle below in which five solid-looking bells hang. In a nook above the bells there’s a rough wooden mallet that the viewer can use to whack them – that might not be a musical term, but it’s very satisfying and makes an amazing amount of sound.

Turkey Serve

Registration for the Turkey Open tennis tournament at the Vineyard Tennis Center is open from now until Nov. 10 at 5 p.m. The cost of registration is a donation to the Island Food Pantry. For details call 508-696-8000.

Can you believe it is November already? And it is dark at 5 p.m.? The latter certainly does not affect birds as it is unlikely that they know what Daylight Saving Time is. But they certainly know it is November, and their southward migration is still in full swing. Sparrows and other finches are moving through, and our winter resident waterfowl are showing up. Their numbers will continue to swell as the season progresses. A lot of the ducks only come south when the more northern waters freeze over, which may not happen until December or even January.