The idea of electric power and lights for Chilmark is revived by the sight of tall poles being set on Abel’s Hill, with the telephone cables carried on cross-arms about halfway up the poles.

There are still many details to be worked out, but last week’s special town meeting in Chilmark seems to have put to rest the ugly public squabbling over the Squibnocket town beach project.

During this snow siege that we have all endured, I began thinking of the Snow family of Edgartown. The name has disappeared from the annals of Edgartown, much as we all wish that this current snow would just up and leave.

I have to question some of the statements in the recent Gazette article of Jan. 16 on the Hancock-Mitchell House, now being restored at Quansoo.

While Island kids slid joyfully down snow-covered hills last week, Cape Wind continued to have rough sledding.

The recent report of another coyote washing up on the Vineyard’s north shore prompts a few observations on the prospects of the coyote establishing a population here.