With the advent of my granddaughter’s becoming a freshman at our regional high school, my horizon has changed, broadened, expanded and become much more colorful.

I invite everyone to come hear Steve Hurley, southeast district fisheries manager for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, talk about the results of the fish sampling survey undertaken on Mill Brook in September 2012.

The commission has helped us maintain reasonable growth while protecting the environment. The world now looks at us as a special vacation destination, with increasing admiration because of our respect for our natural setting.

Louie Larsen was a man with giant arms and a giant heart full of kindness and compassion. He earned the respect and admiration of an entire Island.

I write in defense of Roger Wey. In all the many years I have known Roger (and particularly when he was a selectman of Oak Bluffs) the Roger I knew was honest, considerate and helpful.

In the early 1990s The Vineyard was its own destination, not a presidential vacation spot or a real estate speculation. There were only three things to do on the Vineyard; drink or go to the movies. I forget the third.