Yoga for Arthritis

A yoga for arthritis class begins on Monday, Jan. 31 and continues on Mondays and Fridays for four weeks.

The class is designed to help one move more freely, improve balance and increase range of motion with simple yoga alignment techniques. This yoga practice is suitable for anyone and can even be done while seated.

Classes will be taught by Jane Norton and held at the Yoga Collective at Island Cohousing Complex at 11 Rock Pond Road in West Tisbury.

“Look, there is a rose-colored bird on the feeder that looks like it’s been in a train wreck. Its bill is all bent out of shape.”

“Cool, it is a white-winged crossbill, and that is the way the bill is supposed to be. I have been hoping the crossbills would come to our feeder; they have been seen in several places on the Vineyard and even on Chappaquiddick.”

Brrr! I write this column on Monday morning. I’m looking at four degrees. If memory serves me, and it rarely does, I don’t believe we were in the single digits all last winter.

Dean’s List

Stephen (Stavros) Viglas of Edgartown, has been named to the dean’s list at Suffolk University for the fall semester. He is a junior, majoring in sociology.

If you heard the news, go to the “head” of the class.

Hot off the presses is the report that there is a new treatment for the perennial problem that plagues parents and schools everywhere. Lice now have a new enemy. After years of acclimating to traditional treatments and evolving resistant strains, the bugs will now have to contend with a new FDA-approved drug that gives parents a lice-ense to kill.

Three men were arrested on drugs and gun charges Wednesday after a search in an Oak Bluffs home revealed 175 marijuana plants, a shotgun rifle and ammunition, according to a press release from the Oak Bluffs police department.

Brothers Joseph DePriest, 41, and Luke DePreist, 31, face charges in Edgartown district court of illegal cultivation of marijuana and weapons violations, Oak Bluffs police chief Erik Blake said, after a search warrant was executed at their home at 2 Dreamers Way in Oak Bluffs.

The ongoing discussion of the role of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission in reviewing commercial development continued on Thursday as Oak Bluffs officials took aim at the regional planning commission’s development of regional impact (DRI) checklist.

After a commission meeting last Monday where Edgartown selectman Michael Donaroma urged more leniency in the Upper Main street business district, Oak Bluffs selectmen and town planning board members echoed some of the same sentiments during a joint workshop on Tuesday.

Edgartonians are fiercely proud of their narrow streets, the widow’s walks, 18th century homes, gardens with perfect roses on white picket fences. They prefer you enjoy it by foot (careful with the thorns); as the town Web site explains, “To view and appreciate this town fully, you must walk its streets.”

Downtown residents fiercely reinforced the message at a public hearing on Tuesday, pleading with selectmen to keep four-wheeled tours away from their village.

Most people use social media sites on the Internet to share stories with friends, post pictures of their vacations with family or a night on the town or check up on a long lost friend.

Others use these sites to taunt, harass and bully people who are different from them.

On Sunday night, Jan. 16, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, a West Tisbury summer resident, won the Golden Globe award for best movie in the category of comedy or musical. The movie he produced is called The Kids Are All Right, a feature film that explores the complex journey of parenthood through the story of a lesbian couple raising their two children.