As a lifelong resident, of West Tisbury, I would like to send my heartfelt thanks the Woods family, The Nature Conservancy and the Vineyard Conservation Society for all their hard work over the last 25 years to preserve over 500 acres of open space for our town.

Now that beach weather is here, it is time to address dogs on the beaches and the people who insist on bringing them to the beach. It is our observation that most people don’t keep their dogs on a leash and/or under control.

Last week I mailed a note card with pictures and a small story of how Cottage City Barbershop came to be. I did not mean for it to be in the letters to editor or I would have addressed it that way. I was merely telling the paper the story and thought you might like the original pictures.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of July, 1980: Spring Farm Fond Rose is not your average milk cow. In dairy circles there is as much difference between her and the basic black and white Holstein milker as there is between the Chappaquiddick Ferry and the Cunard Line. She is simply a superior animal. She should be. The five-year-old, pregnant Holstein was auctioned last week at the Syracuse, New York, state fairgrounds for $250,000, a world record for her breed.

After brief rain showers cleared, the weekend weather was delightful. The weather man tells us that we are on pace to be one of the warmest Julys on record. It was 92 degrees in the shade on Monday and Tuesday. The beaches were crowded all week with folks seeking relief. I understand August looks to be much cooler.

A resident of Skiff avenue sends a great big thank you to Fred LaPiana and his public works crew for doing such a fine job resurfacing the sidewalks and road. The added width, albeit perhaps a bit small for bikes, seems to be working very well.

Peter Puchner had a distinguished medical career. After graduating from Carleton College, he enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Following residency in urology at Columbia, he joined the faculty in 1970, practicing and teaching urology.

It could be nostalgia that brings so many to Oak Bluffs for so many years where. As Arthur Railton said, “something was always going on. Three of us old buddies since the 50s, Boston Federal Reserve Bank’s Rich Walker, airport entrepreneur Bob Crews and I were reminiscing late one night recently about the times then and changes now.

We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave — at least that’s how the song goes and so does the weather. I can remember days like these, but I don’t remember them lasting this long. There is nothing we can do about it but endure it and make the best of it.

David Plumb’s family has asked that donations in memory of David go to Mytoi Garden. David loved the garden and visited every week that he was on Chappy. The Plumb family has given the fountain near the entrance to the garden and his grandchildren gave the heaths and heathers on the serpentine path for his 90th birthday.