On Friday, July 18, from 4 to 7 p.m., check out the work of three distinct styles of art by Islanders Steve Lohman, Jenifer Strachan and Sarah Nelson.

A campaign by residents to bring high-speed internet service to Chappaquiddick continues this summer. Comcast will provide cable service if 270 homeowners pay an up-front fee of $2,139 and agree to sign on with the provider for two years. While a majority of Chappy people have said yes to the proposal with checks, a number have been silent or noncommittal, and the July 21 extended deadline for sign-up is fast approaching. Campaign callers working phones say they have heard it all.

On Monday and Tuesday of this past week the Chamber Music Society started their summer season in fine form. The season continues with a concert simply called “Cool.”

By the year 2050, Massachusetts needs 52 per cent of the commonwealth to be permanently conserved as open space.

Currently, a quarter of the bay state’s five million acres is developed, a quarter is protected and the rest is up for grabs.

Filmmakers explore the serious and whimsical world of whistling in their film Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling.

Every region of the Vineyard, and for an Island of a hundred square miles in area, there are a surprising number and a variety of regions, enclaves, realms, provinces and natural districts, is a repository of its own variety of summer experience. In sum they would make a patchwork of history as uncontrived and as interesting as an old time patchwork quilt. Some of these summer experiences were broadly public, some sequestered and private, and many of them are already forgotten.

Word that Howard Wall had died came as no surprise. He had fought ocular melanoma and a host of attendant horrors for seven long years, and his recent prognosis was grim. But as a shock, yes. A rabbit-punch to the heart, followed hard by sorrow and loss.

I wanted to let you know that all cars at the State Beach in Edgartown and Oak Bluffs that have tires on the sand, not completely on the pavement, are being ticketed by the sheriff’s department. I have parked there for 40 years and never was ticketed for good parking, but was ticketed on July 2 by officer number 25.

We recently were on the Vineyard for our annual two-week stay when I experienced trouble with our 11-year-old Land Rover. The truck intermittently refused to shift out of park and was progressively getting worse. In addition to the obvious stress and inconvenience during our stay, I was worried that I would not be able to get the vehicle on or off the ferry when it was time to go home. I called four garages and before I could even explain the problem, was told by each they were not looking for any more work and could not help.