The Work Out at the Vineyard Tennis Center on Airport Road in West Tisbury is offering a free girls day.

About two years ago Skip Bettencourt and I were looking out over the Katama opening from atop the bluff near the Wacks’ house. Norton Point had grown eastward rapidly to within several hundred yards of the Chappaquiddick shore. At that moment the flow of water through the opening was barely discernible. Regardless of what I knew of the well-documented timetable that previous openings had followed, I could easily picture this one choked off by sand very soon and in the very location that it then occupied.

Spring is nearly here — the birds are singing each morning, the natural thaw is occurring, buds are forming on trees, and the deer are returning to the center of the woods and feeding less frequently along the roadside.

West Tisbury parks and recreation offers a free family skate session at the Martha’s Vineyard Arena.

Okay, someone has to tell the snow gods that it is the astronomic spring and the snow should be going away now.

Pay $10 and enter The Portuguese-American Club on Saturday, March 8 for a casino night to benefit the Shark Tank baseball field.

The grand opening of the West Tisbury library will take place on Saturday, March 22.

Charles Kleeman purchased 24 Teaberry Lane in Edgartown from Cynthia Jean Fedele Rivard for $425,000 on Feb. 28.

Pulitzer prize-winning author Tony Horwitz will lead a discussion surrounding his new ebook BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush that Could Change America Forever.

Town treasurer Tim McLean said he estimates the override to be between $1.2 and $1.3 million, although not all department budgets have been fixed yet. The forthcoming deficit was first noted in November, when the town began to prepare for the upcoming fiscal year.