The 2-0 win over Dennis-Yarmouth came despite the fact that the team’s leading scorer was on the sidelines. Junior Jason Lages drew a red card in a game Monday against Bishop Stang. Lages will sit out round one of the playoffs next week.

One of the joys of working at the animal shelter is watching a homeless animal leave with a new owner.

If the draft budget is approved, taxpayers in West Tisbury, Aquinnah and Chilmark will pay $841,000 more for school costs. Assessments would increase the most in West Tisbury. The issue of whether to hire a school resource officer for up-Island schools remains undecided.

Friday is Halloween and all around the Island the spooky and the ghoulish are running the show.

The Chilmark Volunteer Firefighters are hosting the annual get together for the children of the town with many treats and the usual exciting costume judging.

West Tisbury poet laureate Justen Ahren leads word explorers through a poetry mining expedition titled Mining Poems for the Resonant Image on Saturday, Nov. 1, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the West Tisbury library.

A couple of weeks back, I mentioned half-jokingly the horror of depending on just one ferry boat to service Chappaquiddick Island. We’re on pins and needles the whole time that one of the boats is out of service.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank staff leads guided walks in the winter season and they begin with a free natural history walk at Quansoo Preserve in Chilmark on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 1 p.m.

The first community supper of the season takes place at Trinity parish house at the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs on Saturday at 5:30 p.m.

Vineyard Montessori invites everyone to its Truckin’ MV fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 1, where kids, and adults, can check out every manner of truck.