April is autism awareness month, but around our house we’re acutely aware of autism every day.

I am writing to urge people in all six towns to vote in favor of the bond issue to secure a home for the supportive day program.

I’m in my late sixties and still able to get around, workout at the Y, see friends, independently go to public events.

The supportive day program provides respite for Island families and caregivers.

My husband hauled moorings on Menemsha Pond until he was 81 years old. He is about to turn 87 in another month.

The Chilmark housing committee, working with the planning board, the board of health and the zoning board of appeals, has come up with another way to address the shortage of available year-round housing for our working families, friends and community.

I am writing this as a holder of two certificates in turf grass management from the University of Massachusetts and a commercial turf grass certification from the state of Massachusetts.

I am a resident of Connecticut with some 80 years of experience and knowledge of Chilmark Pond. My family built a summer home overlooking the pond and have owned a beach lot since 1934.

Thanks to the late Dorothy Bangs for her decades of enthusiasm, organization and efforts toward raising money through selling bunches of daffodils to help ease the pain of a cancer diagnosis.

The debate as to the extension of the airport runways is wholesome even though from one point of view it is belated. To counter the accusation of tardiness, critics of the project emphasize that their opposition rests primarily upon technological advances in aviation.