What follows are an edited selection of reader comments reacting to the June 3 Gazette story about new rules for dogs on Lambert’s Cove Beach.

What a miserable enforcement nightmare this will be. Joan’s life is busy enough already, without adding this sort of automatic-torture “legislation.”

Tom Hodgson

West Tisbury

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My parents’ best friend, the artist William Blakesley, has a birthday tradition of hosting his friends for a restaurant dinner. This year he has been planning the seating for some months and asked my father six months beforehand to make the toast, although forbidding him from starting with the words, Dearly Beloved.

Commencement 2011

Graduating seniors at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will march down the aisle of the historic Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, and though the forecast is iffy, with luck they will walk between storms. No matter the weather. These students, like those at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, who graduated with the sun shining on them last weekend, are used to change.

Memo to Oak Bluffs: Action Plan Needed

Effective governing, like almost everything else in life, begins with good intentions. But success ultimately rests on good actions.

After 50 years of service and two years of negotiations, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is donating its Edgartown property and equipment, as well as a new $10,000 fund to help low-income pet owners with veterinary bills, to the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard.

MSPCA president and chief executive Carter Luke told the Dukes County commissioners Wednesday night that the new fund for pet owners in need would help keep together families who otherwise might have to give up their animal for adoption.

From its beginnings as a Navy base during World War II to its present-day status as the Island’s only commercial airport, the Martha’s Vineyard Airport has seen a number of airlines come and go. For the past 20 years the main, year-round airline has been Cape Air, with a seasonal presence from U.S. Air bringing in flights from New York and Washington, D.C. This summer, two new airlines began service to the Island. JetBlue and Delta are flying from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and will continue service until Labor Day.

SKATE CAMP CLARIFICATION

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

We were eager and honored to have our camp included in this year’s Vineyard summer camp round up (“Kids Are All Right With So Many Island Camps,” June 3.) And while it’s exciting to see such an artful lead photograph depicting a young and talented skateboarder, we were disappointed to find the content of the photograph and caption below to be irresponsibly misleading.

Please Adopt Us

MARGARET KNIGHT

508-627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

JOHN S. ALLEY

508-693-2950

(alleys@vineyard.net)

The weather has been bright and sunny and temperatures are climbing. Lots of folks worked outdoors and held backyard barbecues last weekend. It is getting busier by the day; if you drove down to Vineyard Haven last weekend you probably experienced your first traffic snarl of the season. Tuesday is Flag Day. Linda Alley, also known as the jelly queen, reports that the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market will begin its 37th summer season tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. at the Grange Hall.