By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

August can be a tough month for catching striped bass. It isn’t that the fish have gone south or disappeared, but they are certainly into their warm water August state of mind.

Friday, August 8: Thunderstorm in the first hours of the morning. Bright lightning fills the skies over Vineyard Haven. Rain is heavy and stops by 3 a.m. The morning is partly cloudy.

Hello, Théoden

Billy and Naomi Dias of Oak Bluffs welcome their son, Théoden Joseph Jacob Dias, who was born July 30 at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. He weighed 8 pounds, 3.4 ounces. Theo joins his two sisters, Evelyn Joy and Penelope.

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

August 8 76 61 .28

August 9 77 57 Trace

August 10 76 60 .00

August 11 80 64 .25

August 12 77 60 .17

August 13 75 59 .00

August 14 79 65 .00

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 78º F.

John Ciccarelli, 25 15:27

Ryan Laemel, 16 16:44

Matthew Graziano, 25 16:52

Joshua Sohn, 27 17:08

Mark Engerman, 41 17:28

Fraser Novakowski, 22 17:34

Mark Reppert, 17 17:44

Benjamin Smith, 33 17:55

Peter Knight, 42 17:59

John Dewitt, 22 18:12

Alex Leopold, 18 18:14

Scott Bosworth, 43 18:15

David Diriwachter, 39 18:25

Jay Sinclair, 42 18:35

Alex Kahan, 49 18:47

Yves-Marc Courtines, 35 18:48

Travis Batzer, 18 18:49

Moonlight Paddle

Felix Neck offers a paddle by moonlight on Friday and Saturday evenings, August 15 and 16, from 7 to 9 p.m. You can see Sengekontacket pond in a new light, moon light, as you kayak with a guide on the pond as the moon rises. The program is open to ages 11 and up with an adult. The cost is $38, or $32 for Mass Audubon members. Registration is required. For details, call 508-627-4850.

Edgartown police responded to two major accidents this past week: one involving a pair of Harley-Davidson motorcycles and another involving a pair of bicycles. In both cases, one person involved in the accident was seriously injured and airlifted by helicopter to Boston-based hospitals.

Edgartown Realtor Elected

To Cape, Islands Board

Bill LeRoyer, co-owner and principal broker of Harborside Realty Inc. of Edgartown, has been elected to the board of directors of the Cape Cod and Islands Association of Realtors.

The professional association is made up of member real estate offices located on Cape Cod, the Vineyard and Nantucket and is the local chapter of the National Association of Realtors, which has more than one million members in the United States.

JANE N. SLATER

508-645-3378

(slaterjn@comcast.net)

At an occasionally raucous Aquinnah special town meeting last Thursday, voters made at least two things clear: that there is support for town action on wind energy, and that they view a proposed energy bylaw as a rush job prepared without nearly enough community involvement.

The bylaw was postponed indefinitely at a meeting attended by 42 voters. But a second, more conceptual article supporting the ongoing investigation of community wind was resoundingly approved.