Erik G. Blake, chief of police for Oak Bluffs, has been elected to serve as the president of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association.

Mr. Blake is the first Vineyard chief to lead the Grafton-based organization. He will be sworn in on Dec. 12 in Falmouth, and will serve for one year.

While teaching piano, young Ernie Dewing’s grandmother made him a deal: one classical sonatina for every Rolling Stones song. “I bought one of the first synthesizers ever made back in 1972,” Mr. Dewing said, sitting down at a keyboard in his recording studio on Chappaquiddick.

Down a dirt road in West Tisbury is a magical place where bunnies are friends with miniature horses, fish swimming in the tanks arrive on boats and a White’s tree frog named Large Marge is the unofficial mascot.

Holiday activity is humming at a fever pitch around town. Folks are gathering for Thanksgiving, coming from near and far to be with family and friends. The Steamship Authority and Cape Air will be real busy starting Tuesday transporting people to and from the Island.

Well, we can’t say the warm weather is coming back anytime soon, but the trees and leaves look beautiful. Get out the ice scrapers and the snow shovels, the squirrels told me it’s going to be a long, cold one.

The Vineyard Grove Company was founded in 1868 by investors of the Oak Bluffs Methodist community to protect the Camp Ground from the secular activities of the new part of town built by the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company.

First we are cold, now we are warm and now the cold is coming in for the rest of the week and weekend. The thermostat is up then it is down. We are so confused, but what can we do?

Chilmark is moving into the holiday season with little regard to the weather. Mild and sunny days continue . . . the cold is only a slight hint of what is usual for this time of year.

The Chappy Community Center invites everyone to the annual Open House and Crafts Fair on Saturday, Nov. 30. Buy a new Chappy calendar, browse the crafts tables and sit by the fire with hot cider and cookies.

Congratulations and all the best to Tobias J. Vanderhoop, chairman elect of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). Tobias garnered 165 of the 258 votes cast on Sunday.