The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team remains undefeated after a rainy, windy and sometimes sloppy Friday night home opener against South Shore Vocational Tech.

Senior standout Randall Jette followed his 192-yard, five-touchdown rushing performance against Coyle-Cassidy with his first passing touchdown of the season, a 19-yard laser to T.J. Vangervan to help seal the 20-6 victory. Strong rushing performances by Brian Montambault and Chris Costello put the game away on a night in which both teams struggled against the elements.

Oak Bluffs recreational shellfishermen were out Saturday morning at Sengekontacket Pond, a happy day, because it was opening weekend for family scalloping. And while there were not a lot of scallops to find, for most it was reason enough to get out on the water in the bright autumn sunshine.

I remember so many things about when I went to America; I missed so many things about Brazil. I felt like I didn’t belong in America because things were so different. I can say that I had the worst first day of school on Sept. 5, 2005. My first impressions of America were, “Wow, what a beautiful place,” but making American friends was the hardest part of moving there.

Editor’s Note: The following was published in Moshup’s Footsteps, a 2001 book of recollections and short essays by the late Helen Manning of Gay Head (Aquinnah). Cranberry Day, an annual celebration of the Wampanoag people, will be celebrated on Tuesday, Oct. 12. The piece appears here with permission.

What is the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living? Originally called the Island Councils on Aging, the Center for Living has served Islanders who are 55 and over for almost 40 years. In 2009, the name was changed to the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living to eliminate confusion and more importantly to change the focus from aging to living. The program continues to be a partner with the town councils on aging and other organizations serving Islanders 55 and older.

LONG OVERDUE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The following letter was sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission:

A Generation on the Market

Lyme Epidemic

The night sweats, the fever, the bullseye rash: the symptoms of Lyme disease are all too familiar to people on Martha’s Vineyard, where the disease is epidemic. Many Islanders are ready with prophylactic antibiotics when they find a pinhead-sized black arachnid clinging on their skin. What was not even recognized a generation ago has become the most common vector-borne (that is, spread by a host such as a mosquito, or in this case, a tick) disease in America.

In a room behind the teller line at the Edgartown National Bank is a door into a 10-by-6-foot structure. It looks like an ordinary wood frame door, with molding and an antique doorknob, until you try to open it. Careful, it’s easy to fall over when opening the 560-pound door to the old safe that dates back to the 1850s.

School enrollment on the Island remains relatively flat with last year, according to a census released this week.

The school census is done each year on Oct. 1 for the five elementary schools and one regional high school.

Total enrollment is 2,019, the same as last year, although enrollment is up and down at various schools.

Chilmark, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and Edgartown all have more students. The most significant increase is in Chilmark which has 13 more students for a total of 53 students in the K through 5 school.