The state might be constitutionally prohibited from supporting any religion in this country, but that does not mean it can’t support a church, at least if the church is historic and in dire need of repair.

Or so at least runs the logic behind a quartet of proposals to go before the annual town meetings of the four big Island towns this year, which would collectively give about $140,000 in Community Preservation Act grants for the upkeep of churches.

Herring have arrived in Vineyard waters, and this is particularly good news for a fish in trouble. Years ago local fishermen used to count the herring by the barrel; today they are counted only by the handful.

This is the fourth spring Massachusetts anglers have been prohibited from catching these fish. The state moratorium is a hardline effort to protect the fish from further decline. An initial three-year moratorium was renewed; it is to last another two years.

Mistakes made in a restoration project at Bend in the Road Beach have resulted in pulled beach grass, a run of complaints about unpleasant sand and a smaller beach, according to Edgartown town administrator Pamela M. Dolby.

Speaking at a selectmen’s meeting Monday, Mrs. Dolby said a number of people have criticized the project including one man who had come to her office with video footage of the beach.

“There have been a number of complaints about sand quality and the loss of beach,” she said.

For a second summer, Main street Vineyard Haven will have a vacant space where Café Moxie used to be, following the latest setback in plans to rebuild the restaurant.

Paul Currier, owner of the building destroyed by fire last July 4, told Tisbury selectmen this week work on the rebuilding would stop until at least September.

Mr. Currier previously had hoped the restaurant would be finished and trading again before the anniversary of the fire.

The internet may have been designed for scientists to collaborate across vast distances, but it has since become all things to all people. Accessing seemingly infinite information and instant communication across the globe are still the main uses of the Web, but there’s a new trend swiftly becoming standard online practice: social networking. This is about creating a personal presence in cyberspace.