Some will weep for The Willows on Hausten Street, an oasis surrounded by apartments in the midst of crowded Hausten Street.

The Moiliili restaurant, which will close Monday, was once the home of Emma McGuire Hausten and first opened as a club in 1944. Owner Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation put the restaurant’s property, along with other Moiliili parcels, on sale for $19 million.

It’s hard to imagine an iconic restaurant will be seen as the highest and best use for the property, even one famed for gardens and “mile-high pies.” Those will survive only in memory of a more graceful era.

Keeping feral cats out of harbors

The adoption of rules banning the feeding of feral cats at the state’s small boat harbors is a good step, long overdue. (Actually, the ban applies to feral colonies of any animal, land- or water-dwelling.)

Feral cat colonies can be unhealthy for the environment, spreading disease and harming other wildlife.

The question is: Why can’t that ban apply to other properties controlled by the state — or counties, for that matter? Reducing feral colonies should be an imperative.