Construction of the long-planned new Edgartown Public Library is underway. This week, the library foundation handed over $110,000 to the trustees to use for the project.

I love the combination of traditions like the August fireworks that prompt presidents to pay us summer visits and the modern, relaxed atmosphere that attracts young families.

Winter solstice was hardly a comfort, for those of us who suffer from SAD while enduring our endless days fading daylight.

Thoughts of a fabulous sea serpent came to the fore when Capt. Claude Wagner, skipper of the schooner Liberty of Edgartown, reported sighting a strange sea monster last Saturday.

This is to express my concern about the proposed project of the Army Corps of Engineers to re-dredge the existing channel.

I have had to find a couple of things to divert myself from Quilt-gate. I went to the excellent presentation on horseshoe crabs at the Oak Bluffs Public Library last Thursday night, and Tuesday afternoon to the eBay talk also at the library.

Last summer I began to attend meetings about a proposed project in Chilmark. The proposal is multifaceted and includes extending the Squibnocket town beach, building a parking lot on a barrier dune area and the construction of a bridge to the former Hornblower property now known as Squibnocket Farms.

I was anticipating that they (the DMF) had recognized and acknowledged that there are some serious issues that need to be addressed in both the whelk and the striped bass fisheries.

On Jan. 31, 2014, the Department of Public Health selected 20 of 100 applicants to receive a provisional license for a registered marijuana dispensary).

A foundation of our very government has been volunteerism. I would consider it to be the opportunity of every citizen to participate in the formulation of our laws, lest we fall prey to the controls and regulations established by those who would control and regulate us.