When Greg Compton wakes up in the morning, there is a lot he wants to do. He’d like to put some work in on the house he bought, maybe take a walk down to the beach with his wife.

WBUR’s Radio Boston yesterday featured experts discussing the spread of Lyme disease in Massachusetts far beyond Cape Cod.

In this week’s What’s Going Around ticks and the diseases they spread continue to be a problem.

The deer population around here is costing residents plenty. The “Connecticut Post” reports the cumulative costs to towns in Fairfield County is acout 180-million-dollars. That’s when you factor in the environment, car damage, and tick control, among other things.