When daylight saving time ends on Nov. 2, we will plunge into darkness before 5 p.m. and the fall season we will be upon us!

Keith Oberg and Kathleen K. Oberg purchased 4 Towhee Lane in Aquinnah from Susan Heckler Smith for $1,025,000 on Oct. 10.

Dozens of chefs, home cooks, hunters and fishermen hiked, drove and dropped lines all over the Island to forage ingredients for the fifth annual Local Wild Food Challenge held Monday. The winning dish included fish, oysters, watercress and pea shoots.

Mr. Potts died on Oct. 11 of complications from a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. His West Tisbury weekly, The Broadside, famously sold for ten cents at Alley’s and Conroy’s. It was published from 2000 until 2012.

Great strides have been made since the Bottle Bill came into existence in 1982. This container deposit law provides for a five cent refundable deposit on soda and beer bottles.

A flock of seven or eight long-tailed parakeet types visited some caged parrots on a hillside between the Allen Farm and the Keith Farm.

The decision about whether to continue to add fluoride to the Oak Bluffs water supply will be put to town voters this spring. The board of health voted unanimously to poll residents in a nonbinding question on the spring town election ballot.

Sidney Morris, the former education director at the Farm Institute, was behind the plan for a solar greenhouse at the farm. The greenhouse, which will teach kids and grow food, is scheduled to be completed by Thanksgiving.

Those of all ages and species joined the celebration at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary Sunday in honor of 50 years of the sanctuary’s popular Fern and Feather day camp. Former campers brought their children. Gus Ben David brought a cane toad.

Two Edgartown men face drug charges including heroin possession following a bust Friday by Edgartown police and the Martha’s Vineyard Drug Task Force.

Police are emphasizing the seriousness of heroin use and overdoses on the Island.