The Vineyard varsity boys’ soccer team closed out the regular season in similar fashion to the way they started it — by shutting out a challenging opponent.

Rick Karney had a message for diners at a Slow Food event this week: Eat more oysters.

“Its’ an industry that cleans the water, creates a sustainable food product and creates habitat,” said the longtime director of the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group. “In order for this industry to flourish, we have to put more in . . . as you eat your oysters tonight, they’re not only good but they’re doing a good thing for the environment.”

A bell sounds for the first of five short 20-minute lunch periods at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. It’s 10:45 a.m., two faculty monitors stand by the doors, and here they come, approximately 114 teens from all grade levels looking carefully planned casual in baggy layers, sweatshirts, sandals, sneakers, clogs.

And it all happens in slow motion.

Joanna Fairchild has joined the staff at Ocean Park Realty. Ms. Fairchild has been a year-round resident of Martha’s Vineyard since 1995. She owned a business in Oak Bluffs called High Rollers in 1979. In 2004 she served as the head concierge at the Harbor View Hotel and founded Vineyard Coach & Concierge, a transportation and event planning company.

Red Stocking applications are available beginning Oct. 25 at locations around the Island. Red Stocking provides clothing, food and toys for Vineyard children in need from ages newborn to eighth graders at the holidays.

The 23rd Annual CROP Walk is Sunday, Oct. 27 with walkers meeting at 1:25 p.m. at St. Augustine’s Church on Franklin street in Vineyard Haven. The walk route is to Oak Bluffs and back again.

Pledges benefit local organizations working to alleviate hunger on the Island. Last year walkers and supporters raised $23,447, which brought the 22-year total raised to $359,085. A group of generous Islanders are pledging 20 cents for every dollar raised this year.

For information or for forms for sponsoring walkers, call the Rev. Alden Besse at 508-693-3930.

Crislaine Santos and Jacy Loose of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Julieanny S. Loose, born on Oct. 19 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Julieanny weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces at birth.

Meg Rottman and Michael Rottman of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Liam James Rottman, born on Oct. 16 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Liam weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces at birth.

Stephen A. Duffy has been named the next head of school at Falmouth Academy by a unanimous vote of the school’s board of trustees. Currently, Mr. Duffy is upper school principal of Rutgers Preparatory School in Somerset, N.J. He will assume the Falmouth Academy position on July 1, 2014.

The Animal Shelter has an A.P.B. out for the owner of a large male cat found on Mount Aldworth avenue in Vineyard Haven. This handsome gentleman was trying to move in with a family who already had two cats. He is residing at the shelter until he is reclaimed by his owner or adopted. Sweet and friendly, this cat is quite distinctive with a prominent dark spot beside his nose and a few white hairs mixed into his otherwise smooth gray coat. He is on the larger side, somewhere around 15 pounds, a perfect lapful of purring.