Katama Meadows, a mixed-income housing and subdivision proposal in Edgartown whose developers have a contentious past, opened what’s expected to be a lengthy public hearing before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Thursday night.

On Wednesday, the board interviewed Michael Gately, an Islander who has worked for a global marine infrastructure company, Tisbury harbor master Gary Kovack, and charter boat captain Kurt Peterson.

Do you still have those solar eclipse safety glasses you tucked away some time ago. You've got an opportunity to use them again, a week from tomorrow, on Saturday, March 29 early in the morning.

There will be a partial solar eclipse, possibly visible from here, in the early morning. We have to say upfront that it will be irreversably harmful of you are not using those glasses.

Only a portion of the rising morning sun will be covered by the moon, making it especially dangerous. No one should ever look directly at the sun without protective glasses. It is serious.

From the March 24 1995 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Jason Gay: It’s deadline week at The Chilmark Chronicle.

There are cavities that don’t require a dentist and should never be filled.

Our spring equinox, the start of the astronomical spring, comes on March 20 at 5:01 a.m. (I have not researched how they come up with the exact to the minute 5:01 time).

I was so happy with the good amount of rain we received on Saint Patrick’s Day.

Meanwhile, back here at the department of Life Goes On, where all of us work, it’s no longer business as usual.

The daffodils are up and budded, and crocuses are blooming in different parts of the garden.

Two, count ‘em two, West Tisbury authors have been blessed with recognition in this past Sunday’s New York Times Book Review.